Philo Farnsworth

Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of allelectronic television. He is perhaps best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional allelectronic image pickup device , the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete allelectronic television system. He was also the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Philo T. Farnsworth was born August 19, 1906, the eldest of five children of Lewis Edwin Farnsworth and Serena Amanda Bastian, an LDS couple then living in a small log cabin built by Lewiss father in a place called Indian Creek near Beaver, Utah. In 1918, the family moved to a relatives 240acre ranch near Rigby, Idaho, where Lewis supplemented his farming income by hauling freight with his horsedrawn wagon. Philo was excited to find his new home was wired for electricity, with a Delco generator providing power for lighting and farm machinery. He was a quick student in mechanical and electrical technology, repairing the troublesome generator, and upon finding a burned out electric motor among some items discarded by the previous tenants, proceeding to rewind the armature and convert his mothers handpowered washing machine into an electricpowered one. Philo developed an early interest in electronics after his first telephone conversation with an outofstate relative and the discovery of a

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