David E. Fisher is a professor of cosmochemistry at the University of Miami and the author of twenty previous books. Marshall Jon Fisher lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has written for The Atlantic Monthly, The Sciences , and other magazines. This article is adapted from their book Tube: The Invention of Television , just published by Counterpoint Press.
WHEN CBS AND RCA battled to establish the standard for color TV technology, they used all the weapons at their disposal: propaganda, lawsuits, Washington lobbying, and, above all, furious struggle in their engineering labs Read >>
