Tucker i inni
Tucker and Others
Author(s): Marcin GiżyckiSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: radio; television; car; Edwin Howard Armstrong; Preston Howard Tucker; cinematograph; Francis Ford Coppola; Preston Thomas Tucker
Summary/Abstract: The article is a recollection of e few innovators and inventors who have lost their wars with powerful corporations. The author focuses on two cases like this: one of Edwin Howard Armstrong, the inventor of superheterodyne and discoverer of a possibility of broadcasting radio programs on FM radio waves, the other of Preston Thomas Tucker, the constructor of innovative car about whom Francis Ford Coppola made a film Tucker: "The Man and His Dream" (1988). Many other visionaries of the past suffer a similar fate. One of them was Barthélemy Thimonnier, the inventor of the sewing machine, not to mention a few pioneers of cinema who did not secure their patents on time, e.g. Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince.
Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 110
- Page Range: 205-212
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Polish