@lowqualityfacts he also invented TV dinners and cable TV and a bunch of other TV-related stuff. Poor guy figured he’d collect massive royalties as soon as someone invented television, but he didn’t live to reap the benefits of his foresight.
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Very like the 1st telephone.
Invented by a man named Lesotho do Vinci, a cousin of Ben, the 1st transvestite mayor of Naples, and his better known 2nd cousin, Leonardo.
Lesotho invented it in time for the Christmas sales of 1658 and he did make a small fortune as a result. Sadly, by mid year, the telephones popularity was overtaken by Pigeon bicycles, a short lived fad newly arrived from Iceland.
Lesotho went bankrupt and died in the French revolution many many years later.
His telephones ability to only transmit Italian was also seen as part of its failure. As it correctly should be.
@lowqualityfacts the TV was also useless until the invention of the TV camera in 1929 followed closely by the sofa in 1930. This lead to the invention of throws (1931) and popcorn (1932)
@lowqualityfacts Actual related sorta-kinda-fact:
The steam engine was invented about 50 BC but was considered a useless device until around 1700 years later when someone put them in to a vehicle
@lowqualityfacts Actually, turns out every TV remote that’s ever been lost fell through a time portal to 1893, leading to the popular misconception that it was invented back then. The people of the past wouldn’t discover this purpose until a whole TV fell into a time portal to 1927 and they just happened to already have the remote for it.
Of course, they still didn’t understand the technology until Philo Taylor Farnsworth fell out of the portal 2 weeks later to explain it to them.