A 14-year-old Idaho farm boy, Philo Farnsworth, envisioned electronic television while observing plowed fields. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Philo T. Farnsworth is hiding in plain sight wherever you look. He is unseen yet impossible to miss. Unknowingly, the average American home affirms Farnsworth eight hours each day. When he ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — NASA Television has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Award recognizes the agency for engineering ...

Today's all-electronic TV sets originated from teenaged Philo Farnsworth's fascination with "seeing pictures through the air" and the idea of the invisible electron. While plowing a potato field at ...

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 ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...