What farnsworths ultimate failure and subsequent relegation

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Edgerton, Gary. "An Idea Whose Time Had Come: Imagining Television- Before 1940" in The Columbia History of American Television. What factors gave large corporations an edge over independent television inventors? What crucial edge allowed RCA/NBC to successfully enter the nascent television industry while the Edison Trust (MPPC) failed to do the same in the cinema industry? How might Philo T. Farnsworth have become a household name? What did he have going for him? What does Farnsworth's ultimate failure and subsequent relegation to the "dustbin of history" reveal about changes to media innovation and industry consolidation?

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