The Incorrigible Iconoclast
Paul SchatzkinIncorrigible: "Someone incapable of being corrected, reformed, managed or controlled." Also: an overdeveloped sense of the absurd.
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Not Even Daffodils...
Umm...Happy New Year? Or is it already be too late for that?
This is my first Substack “Post” of 2026. For a few new subscribers: I don’t actually “Post” very often. What I do mostly on Substack is the more spontaneous “Notes.” But I have...
Countdown #96: Berlin, 1936
November 4, 2025
Greetings, my legions of Substack readers. Once again, I’m just posting a summary of this week’s Countdown with links to the full post and podcast. Today is a relatively short one…
There are now 672 days remaining un...
Countdown #97: Priority of Invention
Philo T. Farnsworth ca. 1936, a year after the U.S. Patent Office told RCA he’d invented television.
Greetings, Substack Faithful:
There are now 678 days remaining until the Centennial.
In Countdown #97, we get to the heart of the matt...
Countdown #98: Edwin Armstrong and FM
Edwin Armstrong at the beach with his wife Marion and a ca. 1930 “portable” radio.
[Much of the material in this post was developed for an earlier post, What Ever Happened to Channel 1? If you read that one, you can spare yourself...
Countdown #99 - The Franklin Institute, 1934
For the first public demonstration of (electronic, aka the only kind that matters) television, Farnsworth constructed a CRT display the size or a ten gallon jug
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