Televisions haven't reached peak innovation just yet

Updated July 2 2021 - 1:23am, first published January 16 2020 - 11:20am

HENRY Ellsworth, former Commissioner of the US Patent Office, delivered his annual report to Congress. In that report he stated: "The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." The year? 1843. In the previous year, a record 490 patents had been approved. It is hard to say when human improvement will end but in 2019, 311,000 patents were approved by that same office.

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