Philo Taylor Farnsworth

Philo Taylor Farnsworth

Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Farnsworth was born on August 19, 1906, in southwestern Utah. In 1922, he entered Brigham Young University. During the period of 1926-1927, he and a friend introduced to the world a new device called “image dissector,” an idea Farnsworth got from Campbell-Swinton, which involved the use of vacuum tubes in the CRT. This was the first electrical TV and was the foundation of CRT TV we have today. In 1930, there was conflict between Farnsworth and Zworykin concerning who had patent rights for the first electrical TV. It took more than 10 years to settle the issue, and the result was that Zworykin had to pay Farnsworth $1,000,000. Farnsworth died of pneumonia in 1971.

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At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That was where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television”.