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(dramatic music) ‐ [Narrtor] It's late summer
of 1939, David Sarnoff has just claimed
RCA invented television at the New York World's Fair even though he knowingly used his rival's patented technology
of 1939, David Sarnoff has just claimed
RCA invented television at the New York World's Fair even though he knowingly used his rival's patented technology
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‐ [Narrtor] It's late summer
of 1939,
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David Sarnoff has just claimed
RCA invented television
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at the New York World's Fair
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even though he knowingly used
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his rival's patented technology.
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Movie Summary
The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
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