The gadget that altered the world from the living room

CANDLES AND MIRRORS:
“No good will come of this device.” British journalist C. P. Scott is believed to have made the prediction about the initial invention of the television. Mr. Scott was referring to the etymology of the word, a combination of Greek and Latin, but now we know the rest of the story.Around 1884, European masterminds came up with a means of adding pictures to sound and transmitting the re...

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