Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1927 inventor Philo T. Farnsworth designed and made this television transmission tube that he called an "image ...

He painted a glass square black and scratched a straight line across the center. A slide dropped between a cold cathode-ray tube (called the "Image Dissector") and a hot, carbon-arc lamp. When the ...

We have all watched videos of concerts and events dating back to the 1950s, but probably never really wondered how this was done. After all, recording moving images on film had been done since the ...

Philo T. Farnsworth is now generally considered to be the inventor of the television. But he was prevented from realizing the windfall that should have resulted due to patent litigation brought by the ...

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 ...

Elma Farnsworth, who died Thursday at 97, was the wife and main assistant to Philo Farnsworth, the man generally credited with the invention of television. The invention came in 1927, when Elma, ...