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Paul Schatzkin | T. Townsend Brown, Philo T. Farnsworth, Secret Science, & The Caroline Group

The Higherside Chats

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The Boy Who Invented Television

The Boy Who Invented Television and The Follow-Up The Man Who Mastered Gravity are biographies of Philo T. Farnsworth and T. Townsend Brown. Both books written with impressive detail in collaboration with the surviving families of both men And they even have some compelling connective tissue between them. Paul barely graduated college having majored mainly in joint rolling and took off for California, hoping to land some career in the television industry. He accomplished this goal working as a videotape editor for ABC as well as on the Barney Miller Show for which he was nominated for an Emmy. His passion for television led him to investigate the largely uncredited true adventure of the technology Leading to his biography of

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