On the Invention of Television

October 12, 2006

And now we add radio sight to sound. It is with a feeling of humbleness that I come to this moment of announcing the birth in this country of a new art so important in its implications that it is bound to affect all society. It is an art which shines likes a torch of hope in a troubled world. It is a creative force which we must learn to utilize for the benefit of all mankind.

David Sarnoff, President of RCA at the New York World's Fair, April 30, 1939 (from Paul Schatzkin's “The Boy Who Invented Television”).

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