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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1906/08/19 Philo Farnsworth is born, the eldest of five children of Lewis Edwin Farnsworth and Serena Amanda Bastian, a Mormon couple living in a small log cabin built by Lewis's father near Beaver, Utah. Born Beaver Utah
1919/00/00 At age 13 Farnsworth wins a magazine contest by developing an ignition lock for Model T Fords (an idea he had because all Model T keys were identical). Inventor
1921/04/00 In his high school chemistry class, 14 year old Farnsworth creates a design for an "image dissector tube" capable of shooting a stream of electrons towards a screen. Inventor
1923/09/00 The Farnsworth family move to Provo, Utah. Philo enrolls at Brigham Young High School that fall. Education Brigham Young Academy Provo
1927/09/07 In his laboratory at 202 Green St, Philo Taylor Farnsworth and several dedicated assistants successfully transmit the first all-electronic television image. Inventor Farnsworth Green Street Lab San Francisco History of the Television
1928/00/00 Farnsworth an his "Lab Gang" advance from electronically transmitting lines to geometric shapes. Inventor Farnsworth Green Street Lab San Francisco
1930/00/00 Phil Farnsworth's "Lab Gang" improve the technology, and a few years later, send signals from the lab at 202 Green St to the Merchants' Exchange Building at 465 California St, San Francisco. Inventor Farnsworth Green Street Lab San Francisco
1967/00/00 ITT Corp ends funding on Farnsworth's Nuclear fusion devise. Farnsworth moves to Brigham Young University and continues his fusion research with a new company, Philo T Farnsworth Associates. Work Brigham Young University Provo
1970/00/00 Philo T Farnsworth Associates becomes bankrupt. Work
1971/03/11 Philo Taylor Farnsworth dies in Salt Lake City, Utah. Died
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