Chapter 240 The Invention of Television (1/2)

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With the sound of the roaring train, Colin looked at the Huzhong Station getting farther and farther behind him and silently withdrew his sight.

After leaving Salt Lake City, the train had less than a day's drive to its destination in San Francisco. Driving on the rugged railroad tracks, Colin could still feel the shaking of the train even on the train.

The Overland Line is the most important section of the continent and also the most difficult to lay.

In the past, the shortest trip from New York to San Francisco was six months.

After the railway is completed, the journey will only take 7 days.

In an era when modern machines were lacking, only manpower and simple tools were used to cut roads through mountains and complete the convergence of the east and west railways.

Every spike on the railway is stained with the blood and tears of Chinese workers.

However, this period of history was deliberately ignored, and none of them were invited to the completion ceremony.

There is no trace of them in the famous photo of the "East-West" steam locomotive closing up.

When the golden steel nails that symbolized the successful convergence of the two sections of railway were hammered into the sleepers, they were abandoned by their employers like chickens. The Central Pacific Railroad Company even refused to transport them back to San Francisco and asked them to go back on foot, leaving many of them hungry. Die on the way or be killed.

Someone once described: "Under every sleeper of the American railway, there is the body of an Irish worker lying."

But in fact, under the ties of the Pacific Railway, there were not only the corpses of Irish workers, but probably more corpses of Chinese workers.

On the Overland Line to San Francisco, Colin was somewhat silent.

The construction of the Overland Line Railway took place more than 60 years ago. Most of the workers involved in the construction of the railway at that time have long since passed away, but the railway they built still transports Pacific Railroad trains day and night. .

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The train from Salt Lake City to San Francisco took a full 19 hours to reach the end of the trip.

"Hoo~"

After getting off the train, Colin's originally somewhat silent mood also adjusted back.

After all, the purpose of his trip to San Francisco was not for the history of the railroad.

Because it was the terminal station, there were particularly many passengers getting off the bus this time.

Many homeless people who climbed on the trucks also got off the train and looked at the new environment in front of them.

Coming out of the San Francisco train station, Colin quickly spotted a man holding up his name in the crowd.

The man was wearing a slightly oversized suit, which made his already thin body even thinner. Wearing a white round hat, he was holding a sign and looking at the people passing by the station.

"Mr. Colin Looper?"

Noticing Colin's gaze on the sign in his hand, the man immediately stepped forward and asked in a tentative tone.

"It's me."

Nodding, Colin admitted his identity and at the same time greeted the man in front of him.

"Mr. John Daly."

Hearing Colin pronounce his name accurately, John Daly immediately knew that the other person was the client he was waiting for.

He quickly put away the put away sign, and at the same time forced a smile and replied: "You can just call me John."

"After receiving Mr. Colin Looper's letter that he planned to go to San Francisco, I have been waiting at the train station three days ago..."

"Sorry, the trip was delayed due to the sandstorm."

"Sandstorm, I've heard about this too. I heard that the whole of New York is covered in yellow sand."

As a private detective, John Daly was fairly well-informed, and he had even heard about the sandstorms that occurred in New York City.

As he spoke, John Daley reached out to take the suitcase from Colin's hand.

"I'd better take it myself. There are a lot of things in the suitcase, and I'm afraid you won't be able to carry it."

The latter, however, moved his arm back slightly and avoided John Daly's outstretched arm.

"Can't carry it?"

Hearing Colin's refusal, John Daly's eyebrows raised slightly under his bowler hat, and he couldn't help but look at the unattractive suitcase in front of him.

"Mr. Colin Looper, don't look at my thin appearance. In fact, I worked in the San Francisco Police Department before becoming a private detective. I am more powerful than you think."

As he spoke, John Daly deliberately raised his arms in a muscular gesture.

Colin smiled in response.

Seeing that the customer was unwilling to let go, John Daly stopped forcing him to take the suitcase from his hand.

Take Colin to an old car and wait until he gets inside.

John Daly stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the city.

The train station is still about forty minutes' drive from the city. Although there are trams nearby, even locals may not be able to understand the complicated traffic situation in San Francisco.

What's more, as a major customer, John Daley couldn't let Colin take the tram to downtown San Francisco alone.

"...Since this period of time, Philo Farnsworth has been staying in his own company. He rarely goes out. Even when he goes out, it is only in factories, nothing too special. "

Driving into downtown San Francisco, John Daley began to report his findings to Colin.

Private detectives have a long history. The most famous one in the United States is the "Pinkerton National Detective Agency" founded by Alan Pinker.

Even the term "private eye" which is often used to refer to private detectives in English represents the Pinkerton logo - a wide-open eye and the slogan "we never sleep".

Of course, what made Alan Pink most famous was that on the eve of the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln took a train to Washington to take office and passed through Baltimore. Pinkerton detectives promptly uncovered a local plot to assassinate the president.

This incident impressed Lincoln so much that during the war, the Pinkerton detectives were responsible for the security of the presidential train. At the same time, he also instructed Alan Pinkerton to set up the famous "Secret Service", which was responsible for protecting the personal safety of the president and other government officials, and was directly involved in military intelligence gathering and counterintelligence work.

Later, these two functions were separated from each other. The former still exists today, and the latter is the predecessor of the CIA and the FBI.

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Influenced by detective comics, bounty hunters emerged like mushrooms during the Great Depression, but most of them were just half-baked people who knew nothing, and many were simply unemployed vagrants.

Private detectives like John Daly, who had rich investigation experience, were a minority.

And John Daly's Ferro Farnsworth was the key to Colin's trip to San Francisco.

Two years ago, the second year of the Great Depression, the US government granted Ferro Farnsworth a patent certificate, which enabled him to own all the legal patents for the use of television.

However, Ferro Farnsworth, who held the patent for television, did not have a smooth life in the future.

On the contrary, he suffered all his life because of this patent.

At this time, although Ferro Farnsworth had the patent for television, the manufacturers who were interested in making televisions at that time seemed to be only interested in mechanical televisions that were destined to be eliminated. Almost no one appreciated Farnsworth's invention, with only one exception, that is, the American Radio Corporation.

As for the American Radio Company, Colin was not worried that the company would cause any trouble to his meeting with Ferro Farnsworth.

Because the American Radio Company had never thought of obtaining the legal patent rights of television from Ferro Farnsworth from the beginning to the end.

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After learning about Ferro Farnsworth's situation from John Daly, Colin went directly to the other party without much delay.

Standing in front of the address given by John Daly, he reached out and knocked on the door.

Knock knock knock——

"Who is it?"

Hearing the knock on the door from outside the house, a slightly tired voice came from inside.

Kacha.

Then, accompanied by a series of hurried footsteps.

The door opened, and a man with glasses and a high forehead appeared at the door. He looked at Colin and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"

"Mr. Ferro Farnsworth?"

Looking at the man coming out of the room, Colin compared the information he got from John Daly, and introduced himself: "I am Colin Luper, the owner of the New York Daily Courier and the machinery factory. The purpose of this visit is for the television patent in your hand..."

In the distance, in the car.

"Can't carry it?"

John Daly looked at Colin in front of Ferro Farnsworth, and turned his head to look at the suitcase left in the car.

Recalling the conversation between Colin and himself in front of the station, he couldn't help but reach out to the back seat.

"I want to see how heavy you are"

Grabbing the handle of the suitcase with one hand, John Daly said with disbelief.

"Huh?!"

However, the next second, the heavy weight from the suitcase instantly changed the expression on John Daly's face in the car.

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"I am Ferro."

Jacob was not too surprised to hear Colin's introduction.

Since he got the patent for television, there have been occasional visitors like Colin.

But most of them have never appeared again after seeing his prototype.

In the past few years, Ferro Farnsworth has been trying to industrialize his television invention and make it as popular as radio, but it has never been realized.

However, Ferro Farnsworth was not too frustrated about this, because as long as he had the right to invent television, he had the confidence to industrialize it.

"This is the television I invented..."

In Ferro Farnsworth's laboratory, Colin also saw the prototype invented by the other party.

In a way, Ferro Farnsworth is indeed a complete genius. The inspiration for television was born when he was fourteen years old. After that, Ferro Farnsworth took this inspiration as a path and finally successfully invented a special image tube to receive and play pictures.

This electronic television, which is different from mechanical television, later became the mainstream of mass television.

However, unlike the smooth process of invention, the process of industrializing the invention by Philo Farnsworth was extremely bumpy.

Especially after Philo Farnsworth met his lifelong enemy, the American Radio Corporation.

For nearly ten years, the two were entangled because of patent issues.

At that time, the most famous saying of the American Radio Company was: "We only collect patent fees, and never pay patent fees."

"Although most factories are optimistic about the prospects of mechanical television, I don't think so. The speed of mechanical operation will never be fast enough to clearly capture and reproduce electronic signals transmitted through the air. Only devices made of electronics can do this..."

This is the idea that Ferro Farnsworth determined at the age of fourteen, and it is also the key to his invention of electronic television.

In the laboratory, Ferro Farnsworth showed Colin the television camera he invented. The pictures taken by the camera through the operation of the machine were presented on the TV screen.

That's right, in addition to television, Ferro Farnsworth is also the inventor of the television camera.

Even the heavy television camera in front of Colin is the world's first television camera invented by the other party.

"...During this period of time, I have been working hard to adjust the electronic equipment and photoelectric tubes, so that the images taken by the camera can be presented more clearly on the TV screen. At the same time, this is not the final result. If I can be given some more time, I can produce a clearer TV picture."

Ferro Farnsworth is very confident in his invention. He looked at Colin who was attracted by the TV screen and couldn't help but introduce it.

"I am sure, Mr. Ferro Farnsworth, whether it is a TV or a camera, it is an epoch-making invention."

Nodding, as a latecomer, Colin naturally knows the importance of TV.

Its popularity has ended the era of broadcasting. Even though it has gradually weakened under the impact of the Internet, it has always occupied an important position in human inventions.

Faced with Colin's affirmation, Ferro Farnsworth couldn't help but smile.

Although in his later years, Ferro Farnsworth began to criticize television, believing that the TV station's actions had changed his original intention of inventing this machine at the time, and that it was an invention that wasted people's time, and even forbade his children to watch TV.

But at least for now, he is still proud of it.

Unfortunately, Colin's purpose of coming here is not just to admire this invention. He wants to obtain the production patent of the TV and turn it into another channel to obtain [faith] after comics and radio dramas.

"I don't know, Mr. Ferro, if you know a person named Zuolijin?"

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