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Philo was born on August 19,1906 and was born in a cabin in Beaver,UT.
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Farnsworth's image dissector camera tube transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, to a reciever in another room of his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.
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Philo's teacher realized that he is a genius and insured him on with his idea. They both knew the idea of television could become something new.
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Philo's father died. The family, then, moved into a half house in Provo. Then, he met Elma (Pem).
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Farnsworth applied to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he was recruited after he earned the nations second highest score on academy tests.
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Philo gets married to Elma and moves to San Francisco. When they were in San Francisco, they had four children.
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At the age of 21, Philo Farnsworth produced the first electronic television transmission.
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RCA was ultimately able to market and sell the first electronic televisions for a home audience after paying Farnsworth a fee of a million dollars.
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Philo was in serious debt and was forced to halt his research. Who had battled depression for decades, turned to alchol in the final years of his life.
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Philo died on March 11, 1971 and died in Salt Lake City, UT. Philo Farnsworth did of Pnuemonia.
