Comments on: Great Men You’ve Never Heard Of: Michael Collins, The Third Apollo 11 Astronaut http://www.primermagazine.com/2009/learn/great-men-youve-never-heard-of-michael-collins-the-third-apollo-11-astronaut Not Your Typical Men's Magazine. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jim mooney http://www.primermagazine.com/2009/learn/great-men-youve-never-heard-of-michael-collins-the-third-apollo-11-astronaut/comment-page-1#comment-5183 jim mooney Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:30:59 +0000 http://www.primermagazine.com/?p=2567#comment-5183 Another unsung hero: Philo T. Farnsworth. He invented television and RCA stole the design and infringed on his patent. RCA lawyers dragged the litigation out long enough for the patent to run out. Farnsworth committed suicide a penniless and broken man. Check into it. Your column could be expanded into a survey of unsung heroes. As someone who has studied American History for fifty years, I could help with that. Here's the Wikipedia article on Farnsworth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_T._Farnsworth Jim Mooney Another unsung hero: Philo T. Farnsworth. He invented television and RCA stole the design and infringed on his patent. RCA lawyers dragged the litigation out long enough for the patent to run out. Farnsworth committed suicide a penniless and broken man. Check into it. Your column could be expanded into a survey of unsung heroes. As someone who has studied American History for fifty years, I could help with that. Here’s the Wikipedia article on Farnsworth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_T._Farnsworth

Jim Mooney

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