Philo Farnsworth’s David-versus-Goliath battle with RCA Communications concerning the patent for electronic television. That a lone, self-taught engineer from Rigby, Idaho—where I’m off to now—took on the world’s most powerful broadcasting company and won isn’t even the story’s most remarkable angle. What’s more compelling, I think, is that Farnsworth came up with the idea when he was only fourteen years old.
