Dominic Falletti, plays the character " Philo Farnsworth", during the dress rehearsal of Palo Alto Players' production of Aaron Sorkin's "The Farnsworth Invention," which charts the Bay Area ...

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 ...

The inventor is often referred to simply as Philo T. His family moved to Rigby, Idaho, at the age of 14 when, it is said, he found a box in the attic filled with science-fiction books.

Philo Farnsworth, inventor of television, died in 1971, disappointed with how the medium had turned out. "He foresaw something a little more useful to the public," said his biographer Donald Godfrey.

Chronicling the birth of television and the ensuing patent war through the clash between an enterprising scientific genius from Utah and a Russian immigrant turned hard-nosed corporate honcho ...

Philo Farnsworth created a technology which underlies one of the 20th Century’s most ubiquitous products, yet he died a man of modest means and is relatively unknown today. Philo was an inventor ...

Lori Powell cast her eyes around the airy space within a squat, two-story building at the foot of Telegraph Hill. "It's pretty amazing," she said, "that we don't get a constant stream of people ...

Philo T. Farnsworth, 'The Last Lone Inventor' Host Bob Edwards talks to Evan Schwartz, author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television.

When the statue of TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth is booted from its place in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., > later this year, it will be moved to a new home at Utah Valley University, a ...

The Utah Senate voted 21-7 Monday to advance a bill that would replace a statue of TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth in Washington, D.C., with that of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman state ...

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 ...

Philo T. Farnsworth first glimpsed the idea behind television as a 14-year-old farm boy plowing a potato field in Idaho. Surveying the parallel rows of crop and earth, he realized that a larger ...