1 In 2013, Mount Sinai Hospital's expenses grew more quickly than income: expenses increased by 10%, while income only grew by 5%. 2  The organization's primary cost driver is personnel, which accounted for 49% of total expenses in 2013.
Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.
Updated August 31, 2016. It was in June of 1956, that the practical television remote controller first entered the American home. However, as far back as 1893, a remote control for television was described by Nikola Tesla in U.S. Patent 613809. The Germans used remote control motorboats during WWI.