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 ...

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 ...

When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth, who helped her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, develop the television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV, has died at age ...