Booed Inventions that Became Very Useful and Successful
Friday, June 20, 2008
The Null listed the inventions that was booed by famous individuals of their time, only for the invention to become a success. Here are some.
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer, 1926.Link
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.
Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist.
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