![]() everyone is amazed that the inventor of TV was such an unknown man, notice what he says about TV at 6:15 on this clip. Want to see the man talk about his work? Here's a YouTube clip of him on the TV classic I've Got a Secret from the 1950s. His wife continued to fight the battle until her death. Farnsworth didn't gain wealth from his invention, and, in fact, spent his lifetime fighting to hold claim to the patent. Farnsworth passed away in 1971, just when his invention was really starting to get a firm foothold in American households. As remarkable as it sounds, television is still a young invention and is already disappearing from many households today. Many of Farnsworths 165 patents for electronic inventions include amplifiers, a system for air traffic control, night vision devices, radar and cathode-ray and vacuum tubes. Farnsworth became embroiled in a decade-long legal war that ended with RCA paying him a million dollars for royalties for patent licenses for several of his inventions including TV scanning, syncing, and contrast control. In the 1930s,engineers at RCA (Radio Corporation of America) were in the process of inventing a different type of television using a cathode tube. Electronics engineers at the time were testing other methods of transmitting images using spinning discs. His first transmission was a 60-horizontal line image of a dollar bill and he subsequently applied for and earned the patent for an all-electronic TV in 1927. Farnsworth came up with the idea of picture transmission when he was 14 years old* and showed his chemistry teacher sketches for a vacuum tube that would electronically copy images on a screen, one line at a time. Born 105 years ago in 1906, its an interesting fact that as popular and worldwide his invention has become, hes not very well-known at all, and in fact, he lived his life in obscurity and died nearly penniless. ![]() Growing up in a home without electricity, one can imagine he might have often had power sources on his mind. Was he a child prodigy? Or just a visionary with the drive to make something of his vision? ![]() Farnsworth, and it seems fitting to tell a bit of his tale. August marks the birth of the man known as the Father of Television, Philo T. Eighty-four years ago, the first known video transmission was made from an idea conceived by a child who was only 14 years old.
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