Everybody knows who Idaho’s most famous inventor was: Rigby’s Philo Farnsworth thought up the essential technology for television in 1927. But who’s No. 2? Gotta be Boisean Caleb Chung, co ...

In 1927 inventor Philo T. Farnsworth designed and made this television transmission tube that he called an "image dissector." Visible light was focused on a specially-coated detector at the front of ...

The father of television grew to hate his own invention — until one miraculous day Philo Farnsworth invented television, had his idea bullied from him, and began to view his own creation as a curse ...

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