TODAY BIRTHDAY OF FIRST TV INNOVATOR PHILO TAYLOR FARNSWORTH
19 August 1906 – 11 March 1971, age 64.
An American innovator who eliminated all the moving elements from television ideas and helped to establish electronic television.
When Farnsworth created his first television system, he was a high school student of 15 years old.
He received his first patent six years later.
He presented his full television setup in 1935.
The basic television patents held by Farnsworth encompassed controls, power, contrast, focussing, synchronisation, and scanning.
He also created the first simple electronic microscope and cold cathode ray tube.
After him, the Philco TV manufacturing was called.