Philo Taylor Farnsworth
1906-1971
American Inventor
Philo T. Farnsworth is one of several individuals who invented the television, although his role in the development of the television camera is some...
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Farnsworth, Philo Taylor (1906-1971)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in Indian Creek, Utah, on August 19, 1906. When Philo was twelve years old, Lewis and Serena Farnsworth moved their family to Rigb...
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Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) is known as the father of television by proving, as a young man, that pictures could be televised electronically.On the statue erected in his honor in the U. S. Capitol...
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In the late 1800s several European inventors were demonstrating photomechanical television systems, systems that relied upon a spinning disc that would scan an image and then play it back. Though thes...
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