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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| 6095624 | Ticket dispenser A ticket dispenser includes a box-like structure having a pair of side walls, top and bottom walls, a front wall and an open back. The structure has a plurality of vertical and horizontal interior walls secured to the side, top, bottom and front walls of ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5954256 | Dispenser for dispensing paper upon manual tearing from a roll, wherein the dispenser is provided with a second roll in reserve A container device that dispenses paper from a roll, with a roll (B) in reserve. The device has two substantially parallel pins (4,4') for supporting and unwinding paper (10) from the rolls (A, B) with two openings (20) corresponding to the pins in the lo... | 09/21/1999 |
| 4019773 | Mobile carpet display center A mobile trailer structure designed, constructed and equipped to provide a completely self-contained facility for the retail promotion and selling of carpets and similar merchandise.... | 04/26/1977 |
