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 ...

Strange how Philo Farnsworth isn’t mentioned… only the EMI system based on “Zworykin’s”. Fun with concurrent international technological systems invention, development and implementation ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Philo T. Farnsworth (middle), the first inventor to demonstrate an electric television, discusses the difficulties of securing patents with his company secretary, George Everson (right), and ...