Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| 6676492 | Chemical mechanical polishing A planatizing equipment has solid abrasive particles suspended in a liquid suspension. The solid abrasive particles have on their outer surfaces tiny, hard but brittle working edges and points. The liquid suspension medium and the solid abrasive particles... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6610549 | Amorphous barrier layer in a ferroelectric memory cell A ferroelectric cell, particularly one integrated on a silicon substrate, comprising an amorphous barrier layer interposed between the ferroelectric stack and the silicon. Preferably, the ferroelectric stack includes conductive metal oxide electrodes sand... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6599781 | Solid state device A method of mass-producing a solid state device comprises supplying a solid state material substrate; providing two adjacent semiconductor pockets on the substrate; and forming a gate layer less than 3 to 40 Angstroms thick. The gate layer has atomically ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 5251981 | Corrosion resistant thin film thermocouples and method The invention relates to thermocouples which are formed from a junction of ruthenium oxide (RuO2) and iridium oxide (IrO2). The resulting thermocouple produces a typical electrical output of about 4.5 μV/k at 40° C. to about 4.1 μ... | 10/12/1993 |
