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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 final cost of the enterprise was closer to $50 million. On the road to success they encountered a legal battle with Farnsworth, who had been granted patents in 1930 for his solution to broadcasting moving pictures. Despite Sarnoff's efforts to prove that he was the inventor of the television, he was ordered to pay Farnsworth $1,000,000 in ...
Ninde-Mead-Farnsworth House, also known as Iriscrest and the Philo T. Farnsworth House, is a historic home located at Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was built about 1910, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, side gabled, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling.
Fourth cousin of John F. Farnsworth (1820–1897), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, 1857–61 and 1863–73. Philo T. Farnsworth (1876–1952), (cousin of the inventor of the same name), Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Utah in 1940, [19] alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention that year ...
The 60-line transmissions consisted of pictures, signs, and views of persons and objects. [14] The experimental broadcasts continued until 1931. [15] In 1931, David Sarnoff of RCA offered to buy Philo Farnsworth's patents for $100,000, with the stipulation that Farnsworth would become an employee of RCA. Farnsworth refused. [16]
Philo Farnsworth: 3 July 1957 I invented electronic television when I was 14 years old. (Farnsworth's only notable television appearance) Bobby Fischer: 26 March 1958 At age 15 I became the United States chess champion. Ira Jones: 6 May 1959 I was Elvis Presley's platoon sergeant. Delia and Bertie Harris 26 April 1961
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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 ...