Let's go fission for fusion
Philo T. Farnsworth with a fusor Last time I introduced you to Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who conceived of and invented most of the technology for television, for which he received contemporary credit, credit that faded over the years as a big corporation sought and gained the credit for. Now sure, pretty much all complicated ideas are thought of, often by numerous people. You might be like me and have all sorts of ideas for useful inventions that you've seen come to light over the years. You might have even thought, "Hey, I thought of doing that a long time ago!" But someone has to come up with the ways to accomplish the idea, to put flesh on the bones, so to speak. And many ideas build on other ideas that just weren't carrying out the mission. Television was one of those ideas, and Philo brought it from idea to reality. He did that again many years later with a device called the fusor. After World War II the idea developed that nuclear energy could be used for g...