Philo Taylor Farnsworth
American
Lineage
- Father Lewis Edwin Farnsworth
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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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