Hoary old question.........

[Sandy G]

Now, now, boys, y'all KNOW that it was His Eminence The General's guy Zworykin who invented television-along w/automobiles, aeroplanes, telephones (Bell was Zworykin's butler, you know...), penicillin, the phonograph, & a buncha other stuff I've forgot about....There's evidence Sarnoff even gave The Almighty a few pointers when He developed electricity...But yeah, somehow the idea a bright kid with a crazy idea-Farnsworth-was the one who thought it up...