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David vs. Goliath
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David vs Goliath Great man theory meets Big institution political economy theory Great man vs the Big institution guy from Idaho got an idea of slicing an image up by rows looking at rows of corn and thinking that he could dissect the image into rows broadcast the image then reassemble the image Philo Farmsworth had a pretty clever idea of what TV might be He was the classic American type the guy that came up with a great idea literally on the farm and he was basically up against RCA who had a huge amount of money and the other inventors in their pocket Therefore great man meets big institution As you can imagine the big institution won He did get paid for some of the patents he came up with but RCA was the one controlling things
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