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GERNSBACK

                                             October 17, 2008


     "Gernsback himself was an investor
     with wide interests.  His great
     passion was radio, in which he saw                  BLACK_MASKS
     the hope of the world, an
     instrument to lift mankind out of
     provinciality and primitivity.  He
     put his money and expertise into                 Yes "provinciality
     building one of America's first                  and primitivity" was
     commercial radio stations, WRNY,                 in the original.
     and soon as it turned a profit, he
     dedicated the station to research                  (I would've just
     in the broadcasting of images.                     said "provincialism",
     Gernsback had been writing about                   myself.  If I felt
     "television" since 1910 ...                        the need for a pair,
                                                        I might make it "the
     In 1928 the first scheduled                        provicial and the
     television broadcasts in the                       primitive").
     world came out of his station."

                 "Men of Tomorrow" (2004)
                  by Gerard Jones               MEN_OF_TOMORROW
                  p.56 (hardback)

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