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Wow, this was really interesting, I had no idea there was a pre-Farnsworth television industry.

As I was reading it I was really expecting it to end with him being immediately destroyed by the introduction of CRT, but it was pretty inspiring to see that he embraced the new technology, learned from it, and built upon it.

[nailer]

Interesting. The TV awards in Australia (like the Emmys) are named after Logie, and he's cited there as the 'inventor of television'.