<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Philo Farnsworth would have been 105 today. He died March 11. 1971.</div><div><br></div><div>Read more about the inventor of the first successful all-electronic television system using the Image Dissector photosensitive tube and a number of other cool things here:</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth</a></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Sept. 3, on your calendar as the first press demo of the system in 1927.</div><div><br></div><div>See Farnsworth stump the panel on I've Got a Secret, here:</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKM4MNrB25o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKM4MNrB25o</a></div><div><br></div><div>Where'd he get the idea for electronic scanning?</div><div><br></div><div>According to this account, <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/662/000024590/">http://www.nndb.com/people/662/000024590/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">(Born in Utah)..."He was raised on a farm, where at about 14 years of age he conceived of a way to transmit images electronically. As he later described it, he was tilling a potato field with a horse-drawn plow, crossing the same field time after time and leaving lines of turned dirt, when it occurred to him that electron beams could do the same thing with images, leaving a trail of data line-by-line. He first described and diagrammed television in 1921, in a science paper turned in to his 9th-grade science teacher, Justin Tolman, whom Farnsworth always credited as inspiring him to a life in science."</span></div><div><br></div><div>That paper was key to winning the patent lawsuits with RCA. The teacher had kept the paper and presented it in court in 1935... giving evidence to the value of archiving. Wonder where that paper is now?</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div> </div><br></body></html>