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	The Farnsworth Invention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On April 29, 2004, New Line Cinema put out a news release to the effect that they had acquired the drama script 'The Farnsworth Invention' from award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin.
		The release read in part: "'The Farnsworth Invention' tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, a boy genius from Utah who, at 22, 'invented television only to become involved in an all or nothing battle with David Sarnoff, the young president of RCA and America's first communications mogul’.
		The play "The Farnsworth Invention" is scheduled to run at the La Jolla Playhouse Feb. 13 - Mar. 18 2007 as "a page to stage production".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Farnsworth_Invention (306 words)

	Farnsworth, Philo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Farnsworth's experimentation began in 1926 in San Francisco, where he established his first corporation, Farnsworth Television Incorporated in 1929.
		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)

	Booknotes
		The son of a Mormon farmer, Farnsworth was born in 1906 in a single-room log cabin on an isolated homestead in Utah.
		Farnsworth went on to college to pursue his studies of electrical engineering but was forced to quit after two years due to the death of his father.
		While Farnsworth's invention was a landmark, it was also the beginning of a struggle against an immense corporate power that would consume much of his life.
	www.booknotes.org /Program?ProgramID=1685 (534 words)

	philo t farnsworth
		Farnsworth was born in 1906 near Beaver City, Utah, a community settled by his grandfather (in 1856) under instructions from Brigham Young himself.
		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 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)

	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.
		Although Farnsworth’s invention was legitimate and successful in 1927, trifling technicalities of patent application dates have often granted Zworykin recognition of the invention which rightfully belonged to Farnsworth.
		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's Invention
		Farnsworth attended Brigham Young University for two years, but learned most of what he knew about physics from correspondence classes he took from the University of Utah.
		Eventually, Farnsworth moved to Salt Lake City and began efforts to raise funds to develop his idea for the "image dissector." He married his longtime sweetheart--Pem Farnsworth--and moved to California.
		Although he had no training or previous experience in high-vacuum physics, Farnsworth was a quick learner--finding a new way to seal a flat lens end on a dissector camera tube to create a very high vacuum.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/from_war_to_war/philotfarnsworthsinvention.html (495 words)

	Philo Farnsworth: Latter-day Saint Inventor of Television
		Postman said he chose Farnsworth as the father of television because Farnsworth was named the winner in the famous 1932 case that pitted Zworykin's patent against Farnsworth's invention, including the camera tube Farnsworth had named the Image Dissector.
		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)

	The Farnsworth Chronicles
		The ensuing interference proceedings focused primarily on Claim 15 of Farnsworth's 1930 patent #1,773,980, which describes the simple, elegant concept of an "electrical image," which is the critical step in the process of converting light into electricity.
		Farnsworth and Lippincott delivered a dramatic tour-de-force when RCA challenged Phil's claim that he had first thought of his approach to electronic television while he was a high school freshman in Rigby, Idaho.
		Farnsworth placed one camera unit near the door, and the power of his invention was instantly driven home to anyone who entered, as they were immediately confronted by their own disembodied image flickering across the bottom of a ten gallon bottle.
	park.org /Pavilions/WorldExpositions/PhiloFarnsworth/part7.html (2108 words)

	Wired 10.04: Televisionary
		Farnsworth took it upon himself to make sure Edison would not be the last of the line.
		Farnsworth was broke and largely forgotten, while Sarnoff was commemorated as a pioneer.
		Farnsworth agreed to host the visit because he hoped Westinghouse might license his patents; he didn't realize Zworykin was already working for RCA.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.04/farnsworth.html?pg=2&topic=&topic_set= (1058 words)

	Paul Zimmer \| Philo T. Farnsworth \| History in English Words
		Farnsworth was a farm boy from Idaho who was plowing a field in 1920, at the age of thirteen.
		The story of Farnsworth is the usual one of a genius with a daffy idea which turns out not to be so daffy.
		Farnsworth puttered around for a few more years, but died of the proverbial broken heart, and his invention --- which may have been the magic bullet for cheap, non-polluting power, died with him.
	www.ralphmag.org /BV/briefs.html (2119 words)

	Liberty - Meet Philo T. Farnsworth
		Although Farnsworth Corporation operated for a decade, financial crisis forced it to sell off the remaining television patents that had been granted later than the original key ones, and the proceeds of this sale were insufficient to keep the company afloat.
		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.
		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 (3405 words)

	Biography of Philo T. Farnsworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born August 19, 1906, to Lewis Edwin and Serena Bastian Farnsworth in a log cabin at Indian Creek, near the town of Beaver in Southwestern Utah.
		Farnsworth's attempts to provide support for himself and his family were many and varied during this period.
		For the next decade Farnsworth and his attorneys were involved in court battles endeavoring to convince the United States Patent Office that it was he and not Vladimir Zworykin who had invented the basic components of electronic television.
	www.slcc.edu /schools/hum_sci/physics/whatis/biography/farnsworth.html (1906 words)

	Birth of a media / TV too often condemned rather than celebrated
		The 75th anniversary of Farnsworth's invention is worth celebrating because the medium of television has such remarkable communicative powers and such distinctive artistic qualities that a world without it is almost unimaginable today.
		Envisioning a method of instantly transmitting real-time images to mass audiences, Farnsworth is reputed to have predicted to his high school science teacher that someday every household would own a device of the sort he was already sketching at the age of 14.
		Farnsworth, who died in 1971 at the age of 65, couldn't have foreseen all that television was to become, but he did grasp that an electronic medium capable of transmitting live and continuous images to a mass audience would have enormous cultural influence.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/06/ED6915.DTL (716 words)

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		Farnsworth instead believed that only electricity could move fast enough to be effective in rendering pictures.
		Farnsworth had no experience with high-vacuum physics, but came up with a way to seal a flat lens end on a dissector camera tube and create in it a very high vacuum.
		With the Farnsworth Company, he managed to make $2.5 million before he sold the company to International Telephone and Telegraph; however, the money was soon gone due to free spending.
	www.uen.org /ucme/media/text/ta000460.txt (491 words)

	The Farnsworth Chronicles
		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.
		Farnsworth eventually won all of his extensive litigation with RCA, and became the first Independent Inventor EVER awarded a royalty-paying patent license from RCA.
		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.
	park.org /Pavilions/WorldExpositions/PhiloFarnsworth/intro.html (846 words)

	Philo T. Farnsworth, The Father of Television<br>September 7
		Farnsworth was born on August 19th, 1906, at Indian Creek in Beaver County, Utah.
		During the summer of 1921, Farnsworth was leading a horsedrawn plowing machine when he stopped to look over his work.
		With an extension on his funding, it was May 1928 when Farnsworth transmitted a two-dimensional image of his wife and assistant Pem, to a receiver for viewing by an audience.
	www.classbrain.com /artholiday/publish/article_168.shtml (492 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
		I was invited to a preview screening of the finished piece at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA on January 30, and made a couple of interesting discoveries at the event.
		Farnsworth's patent, #1,773,980, was issued in August of 1930 - and Zworykin's application was STILL pending.
		This is the litigation that pitted Zworykin against Farnsworth over the priority to claim #15 in Farnsworth's patent #1,773,980, which describes the "electrical image." The electrical image is an electrical counter part to an optical image.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/ZWORYKIN_BIO.html (4342 words)

	New Line Cinema drama on the Farnsworth/RCA dispute - Antique Radio Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While on the other hand Farnsworth for the most part almost single handedly or with so little assistance completed a body of work in his lifetime that is unequaled except by just a few other individuals in the last few hundred years.
		Farnsworth was much more than just a scientist, visionary, and engineer, he was probably the single most brilliant person in his time.
		Farnsworth was also named one of the top ten mathematicians of his time when he was just 33 years old placing him on an equal with Einstein and others.
	www.antiqueradios.com /forums/Forum6/HTML/001290-4.html (4117 words)

	The Invention Of The Television Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	New Line Cinema drama on the Farnsworth/RCA dispute - Antique Radio Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If Farnsworth had chosen to exploit the image dissector's strengths(linearity, lack of shading)instead of fighting its inherent weaknesses, he could have died a rich man. The image dissector was an ideal tube for telecine applications where plenty of light was available.
		Philo T. Farnsworth developed television based on CRT's as opposed to the previous electro-mechanical approach, but it was a progression and not an invention (The use of CRT's had been previously detailed with diagrams by A.A. Cambell Swinton in 1911 in the journal 'Nature').
		Farnsworth's tube did not have sensitivity to light, and thus the Baird intermediate film camera yielded superior results, but was also defeated by the "Emitron".
	www.antiqueradios.com /forums/Forum6/HTML/001290.html (8605 words)

	Introduction - The Farnsworth Chronicles
		The material you will find here was compiled during the 1970's, from exhaustive interviews conducted with Farnsworth's widow, Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth, and the inventor's oldest son, Philo T. Farnsworth III - himself an inventor cut from the same cloth as his father - and other members of the Farnsworth family and associates..
		Farnsworth, who has survived her husband since his death in 1971 and lives today (late 2000) in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
		The book's publishing was timed to coincide with the unveiling of a statue of Farnsworth that now stands in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol Building in Washington DC, one of two such statues dedicated by the State of Utah; the other is a likeness of Brigham Young.
	www.farnovision.com /chronicles/tfc-intro.html (844 words)

	Broadway Books \| The Boy Genius and the Mogul by Daniel Stashower
		By his early teens, Farnsworth had become an inveterate tinkerer, able to repair broken farm equipment when no one else could.
		One day while he was walking through a hay field, Farnsworth took note of the straight, parallel lines of the furrows and envisioned a system of scanning a visual image line by line and transmitting it to a remote screen.
		Farnsworth was enormously outmatched by the media baron and his army of lawyers and public relations people, and, by the 1940s, Farnsworth would be virtually forgotten as television's actual inventor, while Sarnoff and his chief scientist would receive the credit.
	www.randomhouse.com /broadway/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767907590 (504 words)

	New Line Cinema Acquires Aaron Sorkin's 'The Farnsworth Invention', Taps Thomas Schlamme to Direct
		LOS ANGELES (April 28, 2004) - New Line Cinema has acquired the drama script The Farnsworth Invention from award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin and hired director Thomas Schlamme to helm the project, it was announced today by Toby Emmerich, president of production for New Line Cinema.
		The Farnsworth Invention tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, a boy genius from Utah who, at 22, invented television only to become involved in an all-or-nothing battle with David Sarnoff, the young president of RCA and America's first communications mogul.
		Sorkin is one of a select few writers who have achieved success in the mediums of film, television, and theatre.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,670394,00.html (609 words)

	New Line Cinema drama on the Farnsworth/RCA dispute - Antique Radio Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Farnsworth, on the other hand, was making demonstrations that satisfied his financial backers by 1927, public displays by 1928, broadcasting by the 1930's, and televising the Olympics in 1936.
		The simple fact is that the early electro-mechanical experiments in the invention of television made possible the investment in electronic television that was the next stage of development (note the word development, not invention).
		The movie "The Farnsworth Invention", while I hope will at least stay true to the known facts surrounding the events portrayed, will most likely distort history to the general public, if nothing else only in the fact the word "electronic" will probably never be attached.
	www.antiqueradios.com /forums/Forum6/HTML/001290-3.html (9528 words)

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		Philo T. Farnsworth was born in Beaver, Utah in 1906.
		The orthicon is a means of dividing an image into particles whose light values and when transmitted, are capable of being restored to form a replica of the original image.
		The Philo T. Farnsworth Photograph Collection is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah.
	history.utah.gov /FindAids/C00218/c0218.html (368 words)

	West Wing News Blog: Update on Sorkin's "Farnsworth Invention" Play: No Premiere in Ireland, Only in California
		The improbable story behind "The Farnsworth Invention" began in 2003, when the Abbey's then-commissioning manager, Jocelyn Clarke, had the idea to ask Sorkin for what would be his first script in 17 years, since breaking onto the scene with "A Few Good Men."
		MacConghail continued negotiations on "Farnsworth" and agreed with McAnuff and Sorkin that the material would first appear in the early 2007 La Jolla "Page to Stage" workshop production, during which the creative team will work on and change material and to which critics are not invited.
		Sorkin, for his part, seems undaunted by this unexpected turn in the road: "While 'The Farnsworth Invention' will now premiere in the U.S., I hope I'll be invited to open a new play in Dublin in the future," he says.
	westwingnews.blogspot.com /2006/02/update-on-sorkins-farnsworth-invention.html (955 words)

	1977 - The Farnsworth Chronicles
		By the time that Farnsworth intimate George Everson's biography, The Story of Te/evision,(3) appeared in 1949, Philo himself was long removed from direct involvement with his own invention.
		Farnsworth is writing the book she hopes to complete this year-the book which should set the record straight.
		Farnsworth was concerned more with his research than with exploiting the potential of his most famous invention.
	www.farnovision.com /chronicles/tfc-1977.html (2568 words)

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