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 ...

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 ...

The Bay Area family of television inventor Philo Farnsworth is blasting the decision by Utah's State Legislature to replace his statue in Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. with a statue of Martha ...

The year was 1957, the game show was called “I’ve Got A Secret” and the guest had a most mysterious and ominous name: Dr. X. Since the premise of “I’ve Got A Secret” was that contestants had to guess ...

Philo T. Farnsworth got his big idea while plowing a field. He was 14, by the way. Pixabay Philo Taylor Farnsworth was just 14 when he had the idea that would shape the rest of his life. Farnsworth, ...

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

The family and devotees of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, will gather at the site of his San Francisco laboratory on Thursday to mark the 90th anniversary of his first ...

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 ...

My childhood legacy and love for Utah’s own Philo T. Farnsworth will not be taken away by Adam Gardiner, R-West Jordan. I was a student at Ridgecrest Elementary in the 1980s. Our principal, Bruce ...

The image was blurry and tiny, her eyes were closed, but there she was: the first woman on television. The date was Oct. 19, 1929, the location was 202 Green St. in San Francisco, and the woman was ...