[BC] FM History

[Jeff Carter]

We were always taught that Sarnoff had him thrown out the window.
While the world could certainly do with a few well-placed
defenestrations, this one was a big loss in my opinion.

Big corporations, outsized influence/power...it's a good thing that's
a relic of the past and no big corporation can destroy or make
miserable the lives of engineers in the current era.

Jeff

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:32 AM,  <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:

> On January 31, 1954, Edwin Armstrong, gave up his long, taxing battle against Sarnof and RCA. He wrote a note to his wife apologizing for what he was about to do, removed the air conditioner from his 13th story New York apartment, and jumped to his death. A few weeks later RCA announced record profits.