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by 8bitsrule 75 days ago
> This was the same before, if you had a novel idea and make a product out of it others follow.

March 20, 1926: Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer Kalman Tihanyi applies for his first patent for a fully electronic television system. Tihanyi's ideas are so essential that, in 1934, RCA is required to buy his patents.

Kalman who ?