Summary
NEW YORK -- Philo T. Farnsworth, born 100 years ago on Aug. 19, 1906, was fated to live and work, then die, in sad obscurity.
Nonetheless, it was Farnsworth who conducted the first successful demonstration of electronic TV.See the full content of this document
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Tv's Inventor Hidden in Obscurity
The setting: Farnsworth's modest San Francisco lab where, on Sept. 7, 1927, the 21-year-old, self-taught genius transmitted the image of a horizontal line to a receiver in the next room.
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