"PerfectBound e-book exclusive extras. "[T]he fascinating true story of the epic tussle between the Lone Inventor and the Mega-Mogul over the most influential invention of all time. This is a riveting American classic of independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance." -- James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers) Many men have laid claim to the title "The Father of Television," but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind TV. Farnsworth may have ended up a footnote in history, yet he was the first to demonstrate an electronic process for scanning, transmitting, and receiving moving images. By the age of twenty, in 1926, Farnsworth was operating his own laboratory above a garage in San Francisco and filing his first patent application. The resulting publicity brought him to the attention of David Sarnoff, the celebrated founder of the NBC radio network, whose own RCA laboratories soon began investigating -- without much success -- a way to transmit a moving image. Sarnoff was determined to control television the way he had monopolized radio -- by owning all the royalty-producing patents ?