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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. [2] [3] He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. [4]
The defense called Silas S. Smith, Jesse N. Smith, Elisha Hoops, and Philo T. Farnsworth, [51] who were part of George A. Smith's party on August 25, 1857 when he camped near the Baker-Fancher party in Corn Creek. Each of them testified that they either saw, or suspected, that the Baker-Fancher party poisoned a spring and a dead ox, later eaten ...
Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971), U.S. – electronic television; Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), Germany – optical glass, lightweight lens SF 64 [3]
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.
Philo Judson Farnsworth was born in Westford, Vermont on Jarnuary 9, 1830. [1] He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1854, and at its medical department in 1858. He practised at Philipsburg, Canada, until 1860, in which year he received a second medical degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Zworykin had visited the laboratory of the inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, who had developed an Image Dissector, part of a system that could enable a working television. Zworykin was sufficiently impressed with Farnsworth's invention that he had his team at Westinghouse make several copies of the device for experimentation. [11]
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.
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