the life of Philo T Farnsworth - Early Television Foundation

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Il6 THE STORY OF TELEVISION forma, with an authorized capitalization of 20,000 shares. Ten thousand shares were issued to the trustees and the original partnership of Everson, Farnsworth and Gorrell. This was the era of wonderful nonsense in the financial made to world, and there were many promotional proposals Mr. Farnsworth and his associates in an endeavor to bring the public into this speculative venture. Television was a magic word, and to any promotionally minded person the viewing of a television picture fired his imagination with visions of infinite profits. It is to the great credit of Mr. McCargar, in particular, and the others associated in the company, that at no time were they influenced by such proposals. We all felt that the undertaking was highly speculative. We felt we should pocket the loss if we failed, and be in a position to garner the profits if the venture should be successful. By this time some of the local newspapers had inquired into what was going on at the Green Street laboratories, and several stories were published regarding the television developments. This increased the ever widening interest in the glamorous venture among San Francisco people. The coupling of conservative Mr. Fagan's name and his associates with the genius of the young Utah inventor was an intriguing story. The expenditures of the laboratory were conservatively handled, and the backers at all times felt they were getting full value for the money being expended. They recognized that there must of necessity be a great deal of money spent in the futile efforts of experiments. The very nature of the venture presupposed that many trials and failures would have to be chalked to arrive at success in an untried field. In his enthusiasm up Phil undoubtedly made many expensive experiments that could have been avoided by a more judicial approach to the problem in hand. He was young, and the generosity of the backers in
FIRST DEMONSTRATION TO BACKERS giving him a free hand did not tend to increase his appreciation of the value of money. It is difficult to give any conception of the period of tedious development that followed Farnsworth's first successful demonstration to his backers. It was patient, day-in-and-day-out construction, tearing down, testing and revising, month after month with no appreciable daily improvement but with distinctly discernible advance over an extended period.
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((D) A Boy's Purpose PHILO T. FARNS
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