Co-inventor of TV dies

“She worked side-by-side with her husband in his lab; they produced the first TV image in 1929. A month later she was the first woman to appear on a TV screen, probably the very first person. Fought for decades to bring her husband recognition after he died in 1971. RCA failed in its claim of being the inventor, although some still give it the credit.

http://robots.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/05/02/farnsworth.obit.ap/index.html”

“It's really not Al Gore?”

“Nimble he was responsible for the Internet...and Salt, and the Airplane, and Zinc Oxide.”

“No, that was the internets. There's more than one of 'em apparently.”

“In 1933 Edwin Armstrong invents FM radio. In 1948, he sues RCA and NBC for infringing upon his FM patents. Nearly six years later, with the suits still pending, estranged from his wife of 31 years, and nearly broke, he kills himself. His wife then goes on to win multiple infringement suits and is awarded $10 million.”

“as a sign of respect we should all turn our TVs off for one hour tonight(as long as it's not from 9:00-9:30, that's when Scrubs is on)”

“I always thought television was reverse-engineered from alien spacecraft found in New Mexico in the 1950's.”

“Here is more about Farnsworth, about the 5th article down on this page:
http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/historical_patents/index.html

His patent:

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