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Word: scansion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a basic principle of television-electronic scansion of an image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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