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Not quite. It was claimed that RCA invented television in 1942 despite the fact that the BBC in UK had public broadcasts of TV in 1936. The US adopted the system of air navigation where planes fly from beacon to beacon. A superior system was developed about the same time by Decca which allowed planes to fly by direct routes. For a while Eastern Airlines installed the Decca system in North East US to get round the congestion over beacons but American pressure forced the use of their system world wide. There have been several mid air crashes over beacons. Only now that GPS is available has the system changed.