The parenthood of any invention of consequence is almost ... someone as it was for a young man barely out of high school, Philo Farnsworth, when he went up against one of the largest companies ...

Philo Farnsworth speaking with some politicians. [Photo Courtesy] He was only fourteen when he dreamed of the invention at a family potato farm in 1921. According to writer Evan Schwartz ...

The Farnsworth Invention has the feeling of a movie, with a soundtrack that is sometimes intrusive and very short scenes, helped along by a pair of narrators filling in the gaps in each other's ...

The first electric television was made in 1927 by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. -November 21st was designated as World Television Day by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 1996 ...