Directory of Farnsworth, Philo Resources

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This category lists pages and sites about the life of American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971), who came up with the idea for the first television tube when he was just 14 years old.

Resources in This Category

• Electrical Engineer: Philo Farnsworth

  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990620,00.html
  Tells the story of the man who began developing the television tube when he was just 14 years old. Includes photographs and timeline. From Time Magazine.

• Science Hero: Philo T. Farnsworth

  http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=philoTFarnsworth
  A student-friendly biography of the man who invented the television.

• The Farnsworth Chronicles

  http://www.farnovision.com/chronicles/index.html
  An eleven-part biography of the forgotten genius who invented electronic video.

 

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