Fourteen-year-old Philo Farnsworth wasn’t looking up at the sky while plowing the field at his father’s farm in Rigby, Idaho. He was looking down at the straight furrows that coursed over the earth.

Even Hollywood’s brightest scribes couldn’t have conceived a story more amazing and inspiring than Philo T. Farnsworth’s. A deeply religious farm boy, he arrives at the idea for transmitting sound and ...

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For a medium that is so universally derided as television, a surprising number of people have claimed credit for it. Over the years, encyclopedias and history books have been revised and revised again ...

The year was 1957, the game show was called “I’ve Got A Secret” and the guest had a most mysterious and ominous name: Dr. X. Since the premise of “I’ve Got A Secret” was that contestants had to guess ...

He painted a glass square black and scratched a straight line across the center. A slide dropped between a cold cathode-ray tube (called the "Image Dissector") and a hot, carbon-arc lamp. When the ...

My wife and a friend went to see "The Farnsworth Invention" the other day on Broadway. It's a play by the redoubtable Aaron (The West Wing) Sorkin about the struggle between inventor Philo Farnsworth ...