Television Inventor

The man now acknowledged as the primary inventor of the television was not the white-coated lab-dweller you might expect. In 1921, a 14-year-old Mormon farm boy and electronics genius named Philo T. Farnsworth came up with the idea for a cathode ray tube television set while contemplating the parallel lines of the field he was plowing. He scribbled his idea on the blackboard of his chemistry class for his baffled but impressed teacher, Justin Tolman. Later Farnsworth pitched his idea to California businessmen George Everson and Leslie Gorrell, who agreed to join forces with him and start a company.

On Sept. 7, 1927, when Farnsworth was 21 years old, he amazed his wife and his colleagues by flipping a switch and making the image of a single line transmit from his "image dissector" camera to a glass receiver tube. His colleagues weren't the only ones impressed. David Sarnoff of RCA offered him $100,000 for his work, but was turned down. RCA then tried to take credit for having originated the idea, but after a long and exhausting lawsuit, in which Justin Tolman produced Farnsworth's original chemistry-class sketch, Farnsworth was at last awarded the patent for the device. Still, it wasn't until recently that Farnsworth became widely acknowledged as the inventor of the television.

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