Today is Saturday, Aug. 19, the 231st day of 2006 with 134 to follow. Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many ...

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.

Philo T. Farnsworth, considered by many to be the inventor of television, first tinkered with his gizmo in 1926 in the dining room of his apartment in Hollywood. “Bang! Pop! Sizzle!” his wife said of ...

Philo Farnsworth created a technology which underlies one of the 20 th Century’s most ubiquitous products, yet he died a man of modest means and is relatively unknown today. Philo was an inventor, not ...

The family and devotees of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, will gather at the site of his San Francisco laboratory on Thursday to mark the 90th anniversary of his first ...

Fish don't know they're living in water, nor do they stop to wonder where the water came from. Humans? Not much better, as we share a world engulfed by television. And the deeper our immersion becomes ...

Nate Bargatze poked fun of the TV industry and some nominees during the opening moments of the 2025 Emmy Awards on CBS. The first-time Emmy host opened with a sketch with Bargatze portraying ...