Sinclair refused to collaborate with a
second Senate investigation and hired gumshoes to shadow members of
the jury in his case. He served a short sentence for tampering with a
jury and for criminal contempt.
The Democrats failed to capitalize on the affair and lost the
presidential elections in both 1924 and 1928.
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Television
The transmission of images obsessed inventors as early as 1875 when
George Carey of Boston proposed his cumbersome system. Only five years
later, the principle of scanning a picture, line by line and frame by
frame - still used in modern television sets - was proposed
simultaneously in the USA (by W.E. Sawyer) and in France (by Maurice
Leblanc). The first complete television system - using the newly
discovered properties of selenium - was patented in Germany in 1884,
by Paul Nipkow. Boris Rosing of Russia actually transmitted images in
1907. The idea to incorporated cathode -ray tubes was proposed in 1911
by a Scottish engineer, Campbell Swinton.
Another Scot, John Logie Baird, beat American inventor C.
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