August 19, 1906…The Father Of Electronic Television Was Born
110 years ago today, Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in Beaver, Utah. By age 14, he had worked out the principles for the Image Dissector tube which occurred to him while plowing back and forth on the family farm.
The video at this link was done by his great granddaughter, Jessica Farnsworth and is full of rare color film of some of Philo’s first demonstrations in San Francisco and Philadelphia and is well worth the ten minutes it takes to watch.
The photo below was taken after Farnsworth’s only appearance on the technology he created. In June of 1957, he was a guest on ‘I’ve Got A Secret’ and this clip is loaded to start at the beginning of his segment. http://youtu.be/3cspYZyGp1A?t=13m21s
The lady is his wife and assistant, Pem Farnsworth. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee
Great name! ” Image Dissector tube”
http://youtu.be/pKM4MNrB25o
Destined for greatness with the name Philo T. Farnsworth!
Happy birthday to the most famous man that never was, the father of electronic television!
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In Scotland, we are taught that John Logie Baird was the great inventor of Television. Sadly, that is mostly bollocks…Farnsworth has a much greater claim to that title (amongst a few others though!)
My wife and I went to New York just to see the play the Farnsworth invention… A great play..
And thanks to all those local broadcasting people who have enriched our community life. Keep local programming in South Bend! Don’t let the local TV stations become obsolete.
until I enlarged the photo, it looked like a mini bar inside that camera!