Fourteen-year-old Philo Farnsworth wasn’t looking up at the sky while plowing the field at his father’s farm in Rigby, Idaho. He was looking down at the straight furrows that coursed ...

Say what you want about the so-called "idiot box", but the advent of the television is one of the most powerful creations mankind has ever invented.… Happy Birthday Philo T. Farnsworth | LAist ...

In fact, the invention caused a lifetime of pain for Philo T. Farnsworth -- the man who, at only 14 years old, came up with the idea that he later turned into the first working electronic television.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Philo T. Farnsworth is hiding in plain sight wherever you look. He is unseen yet impossible to miss. Unknowingly, the average American home affirms Farnsworth eight hours each day ...

Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

Digitalcore isn't the first video outfit to occupy Farnsworth's old digs. It was previously home to a company called Philo Television, which does editing work for infomercials and the like.

I was in fourth grade the first time I proudly told my friends that I was related to the inventor of television, Philo Taylor Farnsworth. (Yeah, I was a nerd.) They looked back with the same blank … ...

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