Word: gernsback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Radio-Electronics magazine, has a new idea. In his March issue, he presents his conception of a Multiplex Video receiver -a television set that enables viewers to watch all channels at the same time...
...appreciate a Hugo Gernsback idea, one must first know something about Hugo. He is 79. He is a member of the American Physical Society and a friend of people like David Sarnoff and Lewis Strauss. He coined the word television. He thought of radar roughly six months before bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook...
Freedom of Choice. As Gernsback inventions go, the new multi-eyed TV set is of modest flair. It is a conventional set with built-in satellites, intended to solve the problems of TV critics, network executives who want to scout the opposition, watchers of election returns, and families engaged in intramural brawls over who wants what channel. In the middle of Gernsback's new set is the big traditional eye, and flanking it are vertical rows of small, 3-in. screens, as many as are necessary to cover all channels that broadcast in the owner's area. This...
...wants the hockey game and his wife wants Scott, according to Gernsback's plan, he presses a button that centers the hockey on the big screen; meanwhile, Mrs. Telefiend puts on a set of earphones that tune in to Scott. The children have additional ear phones with which to make their own choices. Everybody is happy...
...knobs with a crunching body check. Both Arthur and the Multiplex crash into the wall, breaking through the sheet rock, snapping two studs, and bringing down a piece of the ceiling. Arthur is out cold. The set is out of commission. The big eye is dead. But Hugo Gernsback is already back at the drawing board...