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2000 Technology Review - "Who Really
Invented Television?"
by
Evan I. Schwartz
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September-October Issue
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"Who Really Invented Television -- Revisionist history says RCA, but
in truth it was a Mormon farm boy named Farnsworth. His struggles presaged
the battle between Bill Gates and Netscape."
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Intent Inventor: 1929, eight years after dreaming up electronic TV, Philo
T. Farnsworth fiddles with a transmitter.
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Lights, Camera, Action: Pem Farnsworth (93 in 2001) smiled under
extremely harsh lights to star in some of the earliest TV transmissions. (Upper
right photo). Philo and his secretary admire the first mobile TV camera in
1934 (left photo). Then, in 1935, Philo was hard at work in his lab (Lower
right hand photo).
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Photograph of Farnsworth Television Set in the
Early 1930s
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"Peewee, a toy Boston Bulldog, watches his owner, Ms. Doris Brownlee, in a
test of a home receiving cabinet in the San Francisco laboratory of the
Farnsworth Television Company" (Page 48 of "The History of
Television" by Norm Goldstein, published 1991). The picture on the
tube is probably pasted-in.
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Off-the-screen photograph of an image transmitted by electrical scanning (using
the dissector camera tube), in the Farnsworth laboratories in Philadelphia, in
1935. Taken from the face of the CRT, which measured six by eight
inches. (scan replicates image on page 35 of reference book stated above,
and the focus is as you see it).
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