Apart from the image dissector, Farnsworth was a prolific inventor. He racked up hundreds of patents for everything from radar to telescopes to a baby incubator.

Dr. X, as it turned out, was Philo Farnsworth — inventor of the electronic television when he was only a teenager. While today television is widely lauded for providing us with great works of ...

Scene during the dress rehearsal of Palo Alto Players' production of Aaron Sorkin's "The Farnsworth Invention," which charts the Bay Area inventor's rise and fall at the Lucie Stern Theater, in ...

Though he was not the sole inventor of television, Farnsworth helped pioneer its practical use. Despite this stature, he appeared on national television just once. And no one knew who he was.

Aaron Sorkin’s “The Farnsworth Invention” is just that, having opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York Oct. 15 after a trial run in California. Those of us who have spent our careers in the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - “The Farnsworth Invention” is a fictionalized account about the true story of inventor of the television, Philo Farnsworth. A young self-taught genius from Idaho ...

Television was invented in a small East Idaho town. So claim the people of Rigby, who proudly hail their connection to inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, known as “the father of television.” ...

For fans of “A Few Good Men” and “The West Wing,” the next show at ACTORS theater is “must-see TV.”. Aaron Sorkin, the creator of those two popular productions, is also the mastermind of “The ...

Television was invented in a small East Idaho town. So claim the people of Rigby, who proudly hail their connection to inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, known as “the father of television.” ...