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Philo T Farnsworth - TV Inventor

Recently I was reading a list of inventors ofRelativity probably better than his high
important inventions that affect our livesschool teacher who had tutored him in an
every day. I glanced down the list quicklyaudited senior chemistry class. This teacher
looking for the inventor I knew most aboutwould testify years later in a patent
because he once lived in this area. To myinterference  case.
astonishment he was not on the list, in fact,
the item he invented was not on the list.Phil said that the idea of TV came to him on
This really surprised me because mostan Idaho potato field. As he tilled the
everyone now days has at least one or two ofplants behind a horse drawn harrow going back
these  in  their  homes.and forth and back and forth. You can just
see his inventive mind working over time
So let me introduce you to the inventor ofwhile he was doing this monotonous task.
TV, Philo T. Farnsworth. When Phil T.Realizing at length that an electron beam
Farnsworth first talked about transmittingcould scan images the same way. Row by row
pictures through the air to a little box, theor  line  by  line  as  if  reading the book.
people in the small town of Rigby, Idaho
probably thought he had lost his marbles.With only two years of high school complete
Well, time has proved that he didn't loosehe applied to Brigham Young University and
his marbles, but he did spread this idea allwas accepted despite his youth and the lack
over  the  place.of a high school diploma. Here he researched
television picture transmission. In 1926 at
With the introduction of TV into our world wethe ripe old age of 20 he co founded Crooker
were all just happy to have one of theseResearch Laboratories, later to be renamed
magical boxers in our living room. No oneFarnsworth  Television  Inc  in  1929.
thought they would ever be lucky enough to
have two or event better yet, be able to takeIn 1927 he transmitted a television image of
one  where  ever  they  went.60 horizontal lines. He filed for his first
television patent # 1,773,980 in the year
Phil T. Farnsworth got the key to the TV tube1927.
when he was 14 and a farm boy. By the age of
21 he had a working device. His parentsHe continued to invent all of his life. One
wanted him to be a violinist, but he was morehundred sixty five different items he
interested in experimenting with electricity.invented included amplifiers, vacuum tubes,
His mother's first electric washing machineelectrical scanners, electron multipliers and
was  built  by  him.photoelectric materials and equipment for
converting an optical image into an
He was born in a log cabin in 1906 in a smallelectrical signal. He came a long was from
town in Utah. He rode his horse to school.that first electric washing machine for his
When he was 15 he was living in the smallmom to the magic box, called television, for
town of Rigby, Idaho. At the age of 15the world.
Farnsworth understood the Theory of



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