Televison Turns 100 Years Old

Sometime while you're watching TV on Saturday, you might want to hold your remote over your heart and pause for a moment of muteness to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who conducted the first successful demonstration of electronic television. Farnsworth was a 14-year-old farm boy and math whiz when, while plowing the rows of a field, he imagined the line-by-line electronic transmission of moving images. On Sept. 7, 1927, the 21-year-old self-taught genius sent the image of a horizontal line to a receiver in the next room. If Farnsworth's name isn't more familiar, you can blame David Sarnoff and RCA for an underhanded campaign throughout the '30's to rewrite history and claim credit for the invention (a story compelling enough for "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin to turn it into a play, "The Farnsworth Invention," that will debut this winter).

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I am sorry, but I don't understand how trackback's work. Duh on me LOL But this piece and the rest of the article are from:
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/
2006/08/sometime_while_.html



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