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The Philo Awards (officially Philo T. Farnsworth Awards, not to be confused with the one above) is an annual public-access television cable TV competition within the Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan region, where the winners receive notice for their efforts in various categories in producing community media.
The Philo T. Farnsworth Award (also called the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award) [2] is a non-competitive award presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) as part of the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards to "an agency, company or institution whose contributions over time have significantly impacted television technology and engineering". [1]
American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth invented the first functional image dissector in 1927, submitting a patent application on January 7, 1927. [9] [10] On September 7 of that year, the image dissector successfully transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, at Farnsworth's laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
September 7 – On September 7, 1927, Philo Farnsworth's image dissector camera tube transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco. [6] [7] Specific date unknown – In 1927, the American physicist Frank Gray proposed an early form of the flying-spot scanner for use in early TV ...
At his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco, Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrated the first completely electronic television system. Although mechanical television , using a rotating disk, had been created earlier by John Logie Baird , the hardware limited the picture to 10 frames per second and a 30-line image.
Month Day Event January: 07: Philo Farnsworth applies for an image dissector tube patent, which used caesium to produce images electronically. [1] [2]April: 07: Bell Telephone Company transmits a speech by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover 320 kilometers over telephone lines, which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.
The iconoscope was the primary camera tube used in American television broadcasting from 1936 until 1946, when it was replaced by the image orthicon tube. [9] [10] October - In his continued attempts to improve his image dissector, the inventor Philo Farnsworth introduced a multipactor in October 1933.
A Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor is the most common type of fusor. [1] This design came from work by Philo T. Farnsworth in 1964 and Robert L. Hirsch in 1967. [2] [3] A variant type of fusor had been proposed previously by William Elmore, James L. Tuck, and Ken Watson at the Los Alamos National Laboratory [4] though they never built the machine.