Oh, I did understand what resistors, capacitors (then called condensers), and inductors did, but how they worked together to make a TV work utterly baffled me.

Oh, I did understand what resistors, capacitors (then called condensers), and inductors did, but how they worked together to make a TV work utterly baffled me. I couldn't understand how the vacuum tubes worked, either. I didn't know anyone who had any idea how electronics worked.