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Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television. The design of this device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches, including the Polywell reactor concept. Like all fusion devices, it was not a practical device for generating nuclear power, although it provides a viable source of neutrons. In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor, employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera-which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device ( video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television. Philo Taylor Farnsworth (Aug– March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. Inventor of the first fully electronic television over 169 United States and foreign patents Farnsworth, the father of television, for the Utah State Capitol.Philco, Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph Tempest to commission an artist to sculpt a bronze statue of Philo T. Farnsworth never became financially wealthy because of invention, nor did he ever during his lifetime receive the recognition he rightly deserved as the “father of television.” In 1987, however, the Utah legislature passed House Joint Resolution No. He died in 1971 at the age of sixty-four. Over the next decades, Farnsworth secured two patents to his designs, and his corporation eventually secured over 150. “One of those amazing facts of modern life that just don’t seem possible-namely, electrically scanned television that seems destined to reach your home next year, was largely given to the world by a nineteen year old boy from Utah…Today, barely thirty years old he is setting the specialized world of science on its ears.” In 1936 he attracted the attention of Collier’s Weekly, which described his work in glowing terms. Although others were working on the transmission of visual images, his high school design allowed him to establish the claim-that he was the first to conceive of the basic technology of television. This new application of this technology led to his demonstration of the first television system in September 1927. Although he had no training or previous experience in high-vacuum physics, Farnsworth was a quick learner-finding a new way to seal a flat lens end on a dissector camera tube to create a very high vacuum. Eventually, Farnsworth moved to Salt Lake City and began efforts to raise funds to develop his idea for the “image dissector.” He married his longtime sweetheart-Pem Farnsworth-and moved to California. Philo called his invention an “image dissector ” his teacher kept this drawing.įarnsworth attended Brigham Young University for two years, but learned most of what he knew about physics from correspondence classes he took from the University of Utah. At age sixteen he drew a design for his high school chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, which explained his belief that one could transform electricity into pictures by controlling the speed and direction of fast-flying electrons. The contest, sponsored by Science and Invention magazine, highlighted his invention-a thief-proof lock. Farnsworth won his first national contest by age thirteen after the family moved to Franklin, Idaho, a year earlier.