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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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