The technology and culture of the Western world changed in the moment 14-year-old Philo Farnsworth began plowing his family’s Idaho potato farm. It was then, in 1920, that the teenager observed ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 … ...

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.” ...