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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (33894)	3/16/2001 11:32:02 PM
From: abstract	Respond to of 65232

There are stories I heard as a child that with retelling become truths. The more they get told the more absolute the truths become. One of those is about Robert Goddard and I would be delirious if someone could validate it! I distinctly remember hearing that in 1928 Goddard created two remarkable inventions. The first was a 3 dimensional pinball machine (and I still have no idea what that is). The second was the invention of the color television set. Goddard broadcast a color image from a camera in his garage to a "TV" in his living room. Of course there were problems. Like the absence of TV stations to say nothing of the fact that black and white TV hadn't been invented yet. Apparantly he patented this invention and at that time (I believe) patents lasted 28 years, so that the patent expired in 1956. In 1956 Sony duplicated Goddard's TV system and created the one gun tube. The same TV that Sony produces today was invented by Robert Goddard in 1928. Before I stick this in Ripley's Believe or Not could some genius here validate this story? Please.