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	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in 1906 in southwestern Utah, in a log cabin built by his grandfather, a follower of the Mormon leader Brigham Young.
		Farnsworth was particularly interested in molecular theory and motors, as well as then novel devices like the Bell telephone, the Edison gramophone, and, later, the Nipkow-disc television.
		Neither Farnsworth's teacher nor anyone else around him had ever heard of the "television," which in the 1920s meant a device that mechanically scanned an image through a spinning disc with holes cut in it, then projected a tiny, unstable reproduction of what was being scanned on a screen.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/farnsworth.html (550 words)

	Philo Taylor Farnsworth, 1906-1971
		Young Philo developed an early interest in electronics after his first telephone conversation with an out-of-state relative and the discovery of a large cache of science magazines in the attic of the family’s new home.
		Farnsworth was working on building a practical verison of a camera "eye" pickup tube, which he entitled the Image Dissector, an all-electronic image scanning tube that made it possible to dispense with the moving parts of mechanical television.
		Unfortunately, Farnsworth's television company was mismanaged and had to be sold soon after the war, just prior to the boom in television receiver sales, and several of Farnsworth's key patents had lapsed.
	www.bairdtelevision.com /farnsworth.html (837 words)

	Philo T. Farnsworth
		Farnsworth was a 16-year-old Mormon farm boy from Rigby, Idaho with virtually no knowledge of electronics when he first sketched his idea for electronic video on a fl board for his high-school science teacher in 1922.
		Philo Taylor Farnsworth's electronic inventions took all of the moving parts out of televisions and made possible today's TV industry, the TV shots from the moon, and satellite pictures.
		Born in Beaver, Utah, Farnsworth, was educated in the Utah and Idaho public school systems and while at Rigby (Idaho) High School in 1921 delved into the molecular theory of matter, electrons and the Einstein theory.
	www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/farnsworth.html (1356 words)

	philo t farnsworth
		Moreover, Farnsworth's old teacher, Tolman, not only testified that Farnsworth had conceived the idea when he was a high school student, but also produced the original sketch of an electronic tube that Farnsworth had drawn for him at that time.
		Farnsworth withdrew to a house in Maine, suffering from depression, which was made worse by excessive drinking.
		Farnsworth was referred to as Dr. X and the panel had the task of discovering what he had done to merit his appearance on the show.
	www.farnsworthelectronics.com /philotfarnsworth.htm (1279 words)

	Farnsworth, Philo
		Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who has been called the forgotten father of television, won a prize offered by the Science and Invention magazine for developing a thief proof automobile ignition switch, at the age of thirteen.
		In 1931, Farnsworth moved to Philadelphia to establish a television department for Philco.
		Farnsworth was an independent experimenter, a charismatic scientist, an idea person who was able to initiate ideas and convince investors.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/F/htmlF/farnsworthp/farnsworthp.htm (583 words)

	Ancestry.co.uk - The Last Inventor: Philo T. Farnsworth
		Farnsworth’s inventive genius was first applied when he designed a motor, using the power from the farm generator, to operate his mother’s washer.
		Philo and Pem, both under the age of 20, were married within three days and made their way to Hollywood, California to achieve their goal.
		The Farnsworths were parents to four sons, one of which died as a small child, and were a happily married couple devoted to each other, their family, and to making Philo’s inventions successful.
	www.ancestry.co.uk /learn/library/article.aspx?article=723 (1632 words)

	Philo T. Farnsworth Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) is known as the father of television by proving, as a young man, that pictures could be televised electronically.
		Farnsworth was born in Indian Creek, Utah, on August 19, 1906.
		Farnsworth was adept at inventing gadgets even before he went to high school, and he won a national invention contest when he was 13 years old.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/philo-t-farnsworth (1134 words)

	Philo
		Like the inventors of the atom bomb, Farnsworth came to deeply regret what he had wrought, as he grew old watching television fail to bring high culture and education to the masses, and instead portray what he felt was depravity and vice.
		Eventually, Farnsworth spent years in court before winning the patent war with RCA, which claimed it was the first to invent the medium and thus didn't owe him anything.
		Farnsworth was apparently not thrilled with his invention, which has always been the butt of intellectual scorn.
	www.ldsfilm.com /announced/Philo.html (683 words)

	ETF - Philo Farnsworth
		Philo Taylor Farnsworth, specialist in cathode-ray tubes as applied to television, first became interested in electricity through a farm lighting system and its electric motors.
		Farnsworth was described by a friend as "an omnivorous reader of scientific literature.
		The Farnsworth Radio and Television Corporation was organized in 1938 with headquarters at Fort Wayne, Indiana, with E.A. Nicholas as president, and Farnsworth as director of research.
	www.earlytelevision.org /philo_farnsworth.html (573 words)

	Philo Farnsworth: Latter-day Saint Inventor of Television
		During Farnsworth's battle with RCA over the patent, Tolman would be called to testify, and he reproduced the sketch in detail -- a key piece of evidence in favor of Farnsworth.
		That evidence was produced by Farnsworth's chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, who testified in the patent case that Farnsworth had confided his boyhood idea to him for an electronic TV system when Farnsworth was attending high school in Rigby, Idaho, where the Farnsworths had moved when the boy was 11.
		Farnsworth, a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stopped attending services when he was 17, after his father died, and did not return until his move back to Utah in 1967.
	www.adherents.com /people/pf/Philo_Farnsworth.html (4231 words)

	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
		Farnsworth, who was raised on a Utah farm, met Philo Farnsworth during her sophomore year in high school.
		Following Philo's passing, Pem Farnsworth, who was often referred to as "the mother of television," devoted her energies to informing the public that her husband was the inventor of TV technology.
		Farnsworth obtained an experimental license from the FCC to conduct over-the-air television transmission.
	www.emmys.org /news/2006/april/farnsworth.php (2179 words)

	The My Hero Project - Philo T. Farnsworth
		When the Farnsworth family moved to their new farm in 1919, eleven-year-old Philo was surprised to find it wired for electricity.
		In college, Farnsworth continued his research with cathode ray and vacuum tubes, but the death of his father eventually forced him to give up this research and find a job in order to support his family.
		Farnsworth, however, stands out because of his courage--he refused to sell out to a giant corporation, and never gave up hope until he made something of those sketchy images from his childhood.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=philoTFarnsworth (2030 words)

	Philo T. Farnsworth
		Philo T. Farnsworth was born on August 19, 1906, on Indian Creek in Beaver County, Utah.
		Farnsworth is called "the father of television" for his invention of an early electronic television system, which he first visualized when he was in high school.
		Farnsworth died on March 11, 1971, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/farnsworth.cfm (179 words)

	Philo T. Farnsworth
		His teacher admittedly didn’t fully understand the principals behind Philo’s drawings, but he recognized the overall potential in the young student’s idea and entered the diagrams in a local science fair, where they won an award for most original concept.
		In the end, the credibility Zworykin brought to RCA was eventually exploited, and he became an unwilling pawn in Sarnoff’s deceitful attempt to establish the RCA Research and Development team as television’s true inventor.
		These diagrams made by Philo as a 14 year old child were the deciding factor in the patent case, and RCA lost.
	www.mess.net /bios/jason/writings/philo.htm (2294 words)

	Introduction - The Farnsworth Chronicles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Farnsworth was a 14 year old Mormon farm boy from Rigby Idaho with virtually no knowledge of electronics when he first sketched his idea for electronic video on a fl board for his high-school science teacher in 1922.
		The entire effort to recreate Farnsworth's story and integrate it with the "historical" record was part of a larger effort to produce a "movie for television about the boy who invented it." which has yet to be funded or produced.
		Farnsworth, who has survived her husband since his death in 1971 and lives today (late 2000) in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	www.farnovision.com /chronicles/tfc-intro.html (844 words)

	Inventor Philo T. Farnsworth
		Farnsworth called his device an image dissector because it converted individual elements of the image into electricity one at a time.
		Chronicles the incredible story of television, from the vision of Philo Farnsworth, a Utah farm boy who developed the first working system in 1925, to the technological breakthroughs that are transforming the medium as we head into the 21st century.
		Farnsworth invented the Isolette, an enclosed, sterile crib for isolating premature babies too frail to survive in a normal environment.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/farnsworth.htm (1016 words)

	Philo Farnsworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to news media in 1928, and to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on August 25, 1934.
		Philo Farnsworth died from emphysema in 1971 at the age of 64.
		Philo's wife, Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth, died on April 27, 2006, at the age of 98.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philo_Farnsworth (2150 words)

	Liberty - Meet Philo T. Farnsworth
		Farnsworth certainly remembers her husband as having faults, chiefly a serious drinking problem, but although she admits that she once considered divorce because of his drinking, the problem was not sufficient to dissuade her from remaining married to him for 45 years.
		Schwartz notes that Farnsworth believed in self-reliance to the extent that even when Congress called him before anti-monopoly hearings, expecting him to testify against RCA, he made only innocuous points and even presented evidence that tended to absolve RCA of charges that it was trying to soak consumers by selling inferior radio tubes.
		This allowed Farnsworth to see for the first time that his competition was improving the picture quality of his invention by leaps that would make it necessary for him to license their patents just as they would need his.
	www.libertyunbound.com /archive/2004_04/fowler-television.html (3417 words)

	TIME 100: Philo Farnsworth
		Farnsworth was born in 1906 near Beaver City, Utah, a community settled by his grandfather (in 1856) under instructions from Brigham Young himself.
		When Farnsworth was 12, his family moved to a ranch in Rigby, Idaho, which was four miles from the nearest high school, thus necessitating his daily horseback rides.
		Many years later, testifying at a patent interference case, Tolman said Farnsworth's explanation of the theory of relativity was the clearest and most concise he had ever heard.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html (397 words)

	Who is the inventor of television?
		Farnsworth was the first of the two inventors to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals, which he did on September 7, 1927, using a scanning tube of his own design.
		In the height of the legal battle for patent priority, Farnsworth’s high school science teacher was subpoenaed and traveled to Washington to testify that as a 14 year old, Farnsworth had shared his ideas of his television scanning tube with his teacher.
		Philo Farnsworth was recently named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Greatest Scientists and Thinkers of the 20th Century.
	www.physlink.com /Education/AskExperts/ae408.cfm (659 words)

	BYU Broadcasting \| Farnsworth Society - Farnsworth Story
		By the time Philo was just 21, he developed the first all-electronic system of television.
		As a former student, Philo was honored by Brigham Young University with the Distinguished Alumnus Award for his contribution to the reputation and prestige of the university and as an inspiration to the students.
		It isn’t just for his inventions and achievements that we celebrate and honor Philo T. Farnsworth; it is his dream of what electronics could do for the world.
	www.byubroadcasting.org /philo/story.asp (299 words)

	Philo Farnsworth, TV's invisible inventor, was born 100 years ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The setting: Farnsworth's modest San Francisco lab where, on Sept. 7, 1927, the 21-year-old self-taught genius transmitted the image of a horizontal line to a receiver in the next room.
		But his wife, Elma "Pem" Farnsworth, who had worked by her husband's side throughout his tortured career, continued fighting to gain him his rightful place in history, until her death earlier this year at 98.
		But in his sad fashion, Farnsworth won: The force unleashed as television was his doing, however blind the world may be to what he did.
	www.freenewmexican.com /news/47931.html (1015 words)

	voice.media.org: Television Eye.
		Philo T. Farnsworth was one of the greatest inventors of our century, and his story is suitably dramatic and uniquely befitting to the patron saint of teevee.
		Philo threw the establishment for a proverbial loop when he conceived the missing link at the tender age of 14.
		Farnsworth clung to these fundamental truths, because he truly believed that the future of media (television, in his minds eye) was a bright one, and it would ultimately belong to the masses, not the Almighty Corporation.
	voice.media.org /essays/tveye.html (2601 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Features:Philo Farnsworth, overlooked inventor of TV 06/17/02
		Some may yet dispute Farnsworth's status as the father of television, but any lingering doubts reside in the misconception that the Radio Corporation of America was TV's creator.
		Ultimately, Farnsworth would go head to head with RCA's chief television engineer Vladimir Zworykin and the vast resources of a company whose boss had no intention of losing either a financial windfall or eternal bragging rights as the father of TV.
		In 1935 the courts ruled that Farnsworth, not Zworykin, was the inventor of electronic television.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/061702/fea_124-1970.shtml (777 words)

	Philo Farnsworth: Fusor (Inertial Electrostatic Confinement)
		Farnsworth reasoned that he could build an electrostatic confinement system in which the "walls" of the reactor were electrons or ions being held in place by the multipactor.
		Farnsworth then moved to Brigham Young University and tried to hire on most of his original lab from ITT into a new company.
		In the mid-1950's, P. Farnsworth (one of the inventors of television) pondered the bright visible convergent focus glow that forms in the center of spherical multipactor tubes, and came up with the idea of using a spherical diode with the inner electrode in the form of a highly transparent wire grid (i.e.
	www.rexresearch.com /farnsworth/fusor.htm (10516 words)

	Philo Farnsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Philo was born in 1906 in Beaver, Utah.
		His family moved to Idaho in 1920 for a mining job (Philo’s father Mitchell Farnsworth was an engineer) but moved again in 1921.
		Farnsworth did attend school in Idaho, and that was a crucial year in his scientific development.
	www.wdog.com /blackburn/mblackburn/farnsworth.html (132 words)

	Utah Children Won Recognition For Philo T. Farnsworth
		Farnsworth was born in 1906 near Beaver, Utah.
		Farnsworth believed that he could transform electricity into pictures by controlling the speed and direction of fast-flying electrons.
		Farnsworth moved to Salt Lake and met George Everson who helped him obtain financial backing to further develop his image dissector.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/utah_today/utahchildrenwonrecognitionforphilotfarnsworth.html (862 words)

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