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Philo Farnsworth

Television

  • Philo first conceived the idea of an electronic television at age 14 in 1920. He had a working model at age 21.
  • Philo Farnsworth attended Brigham Young University in Utah, where he researched television picture transmission. While in high school, Philo Farnsworth had already conceived of his ideas for television.
  • In 1926, he co founded Crocker Research Laboratories, which he later renamed Farnsworth Television, Inc. in 1929 (and as Farnsworth Radio and Television Corporation in 1938.)
  • In 1927, Philo Farnsworth was the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines. The image transmitted was a dollar sign. Farnsworth developed the dissector tube, the basis of all current electronic televisions.
  • If you watch television today, you can thank a kid inventor!
 
 

 
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