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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today.
May 17, 2024 · Philo Farnsworth, American inventor who developed the first all-electronic television system. He made his first successful electronic television transmission in 1927. Farnsworth’s later work included the fusor, a proposed nuclear fusion device.
Apr 2, 2014 · Philo T. Farnsworth was a talented scientist and inventor from a young age. In 1938, he unveiled a prototype of the first all-electric television, and went on to lead research in nuclear...
Mar 28, 2020 · Philo Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic television system.
Aug 28, 2017 · Philo Taylor Farnsworth was just 14 when he had the idea that would shape the rest of his life. Farnsworth, had aspired to be an inventor since the age of six, writes Evan I. Schwartz for the...
Philo Farnsworth conceived the world's first all-electronic television at the age of 15. By the time he died, he had earned over 300 U.S. and foreign patents for electronic and mechanical devices.
Philo T. Farnsworth, (born Aug. 19, 1906, Beaver, Utah, U.S.—died March 11, 1971, Salt Lake City, Utah), U.S. engineer and pioneer inventor in the development of television. In 1927 he successfully transmitted the first image using electronic means.
Biography. Farnsworth on set. When he was 15 years old, Philo T. Farnsworth drew something on the blackboard in chemistry class that would change the world. It was an “Image Dissector” and it was young Philo’s idea for electronic television.
May 11, 2017 · The inventor of television grew up in Utah prior to the existence of power lines, making his radical electronic concepts all the more remarkable.
This void in our popular mythology is unfortunate, because in fact, the true origin of electronic video is one the most fascinating stories of the 20th century...and features one of the era's most intriguing and enigmatic characters: Philo T. Farnsworth.
