{"id":6439,"date":"2014-08-20T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/happy-birthday-philo-farnsworth\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:00:15","slug":"happy-birthday-philo-farnsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/happy-birthday-philo-farnsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Philo Farnsworth!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span> Thanks to Bob Crane (and Garrison Keillor): <\/b><\/span>

<\/b><\/span> It’s the birthday<\/span> <\/span>of Philo Taylor Farnsworth<\/span><\/a>, the inventor of the television, born in a log cabin in Beaver, Utah, in 1906. He conceived of the basic elements necessary to transmit a visual image while he was still in high school; later, at Brigham Young University, he began his research in earnest. He co-founded Crocker Research Laboratories in San Francisco when he was just 20 years old, and the following year, in 1927, he transmitted his first image: a straight line. Investors wanted to know when they would see financial returns, so at his first demonstration for the press in 1928, he transmitted the image of a dollar sign. This earned him the first of about 165 patents. <\/u><\/u><\/span><\/b>
Farnsworth appeared only once on his invention: He was the mystery guest “Dr. X” on the game show I’ve Got a Secret<\/i> in July 1957.<\/u><\/u><\/b><\/span>
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<\/b> I liked Paul Schatzkin’s book on Philo: “The Boy who Invented Television”: Here you can read chapter one for free: <\/b>
http:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/philo-t-farsnworth-radio-hero.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Bob Crane (and Garrison Keillor): It’s the birthday of Philo Taylor Farnsworth, the inventor of the television, born in a log cabin in Beaver, Utah, in 1906. He conceived of the basic elements necessary to transmit a visual image while he was still in high school; later, at Brigham Young University, he began … Continue reading “Happy Birthday Philo Farnsworth!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amateur-television","category-farnsworth-philo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}