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Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government. He also invented a video camera tube and the image dissector. He sold a fully functioning television system—complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Ind…
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science · American inventor (1906–1971) · inventor · also Philo Farnsworth, פילו ט. פרנסוורת', פילו טיילור פרנסוורת', Farnsworth
Born 19 August 1906 · Died 11 March 1971 · Q360098
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2018· 1 entry
Despite there being an extended debate as well as sizable public opposition against the decision, the Utah State Legislature still voted to replace it with a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon
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2014· 1 entry
Published “The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science” in Biological Conservation — cited 998 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Anal human papillomavirus infection and associated neoplastic lesions in men who have sex with men: a systematic review and meta-analysis” in The Lancet Oncology — cited 857 times.
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2011· 3 entries
Farnsworth was inducted by Mayor Gavin Newsom into the newly established San Francisco Hall of Fame, in the science and technology category
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Published “A review of botanical characteristics, phytochemistry, clinical relevance in efficacy and safety of Lycium barbarum fruit (Goji)” in Food Research International — cited 514 times.
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Published “River Discharge to the Coastal Ocean” — cited 757 times.
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2010· 2 entries
The former Farnsworth factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was razed, eliminating the "cave," where many of Farnsworth's inventions were first created, and where its radio and television receivers and transmitters, television
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Published “The Loss of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk and Geographic Areas of Global Concern” in PLoS ONE — cited 1,071 times.
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2007· 1 entry
After Sorkin adapted it from his unproduced screenplay, dramatized the conflict arising from Farnsworth's invention of TV and the alleged stealing of the design by David Sarnoff of RCA
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2006· 1 entry
Farnsworth was posthumously presented the Eagle Scout award when it was discovered he had earned it but had never been presented with it
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2001· 1 entry
Published “The value of plants used in traditional medicine for drug discovery.” in Environmental Health Perspectives — cited 800 times.
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1999· 2 entries
Time magazine included Farnsworth in the "Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century"
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Is named after and partially inspired by Philo Farnsworth, and in the episode "All the Presidents' Heads" was revealed to have descended from him
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1997· 1 entry
Published “Cancer Chemopreventive Activity of Resveratrol, a Natural Product Derived from Grapes” in Science — cited 3,996 times.
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1995· 2 entries
Published “Antidiabetic plants and their active constituents” in Phytomedicine — cited 600 times.
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Published “Discovery of betulinic acid as a selective inhibitor of human melanoma that functions by induction of apoptosis” in Nature Medicine — cited 706 times.
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1984).
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That her husband broke the stunned silence of his lab assistants by saying, "There you are – electronic television
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Farnsworth was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1981· 1 entry
A plaque honoring Farnsworth as The Genius of Green Street was placed on the 202 Green Street location (37
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1971· 2 entries
Died 1971-03-11.
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“This has made it all worthwhile.”
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1969· 1 entry
Along with millions of others: "We were watching it, and, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Phil turned to me and said, 'Pem, this has made it all worthwhile
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1967· 2 entries
Farnsworth was issued an honorary degree by Brigham Young University, which he had briefly attended after graduating from Brigham Young High School
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Farnsworth and his family moved back to Utah to continue his fusion research at Brigham Young University, which presented him with an honorary doctorate
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1959· 1 entry
Published “Structure and Adsorption Characteristics of Clean Surfaces of Germanium and Silicon” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 832 times.
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1957· 1 entry
Was a mystery guest ("Doctor X") on the CBS quiz show I've Got A Secret
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1941).
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1939· 2 entries
To sell electronic television cameras to the public
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Farnsworth Article (from the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)
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1938· 1 entry
Farnsworth established the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with E
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1936· 1 entry
Collier's Weekly praised Farnsworth's work: "One of those amazing facts of modern life that just don't seem possible—namely, electrically scanned television that seems destined to reach your home next year, was largely g
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1934· 4 entries
And decided in February 1935, his high school chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, produced a sketch he had made of a blackboard drawing Farnsworth had shown him in spring 1922
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Farnsworth secured an agreement with Goerz-Bosch-Fernseh in Germany
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Held the first public exhibition of his device at the Franklin Institute in that city
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Awarding priority of the invention of the image dissector to Farnsworth
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1932· 1 entry
While in England to raise money for his legal battles with RCA, Farnsworth met with John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor who had given the world's first public demonstration of a working television system in London in 1
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1931· 1 entry
David Sarnoff of RCA offered to buy Farnsworth's patents for $100,000, with the stipulation that he become an employee of RCA, but Farnsworth refused
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1929· 1 entry
The design was further improved by elimination of a motor-generator, which meant the television system now had no mechanical parts
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1928· 2 entries
And to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on August 25, 1934
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And a "low velocity" method of electron scanning, also describes "discrete particles" whose "potential" is manipulated and "saturated" to varying degrees depending on their velocity
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1927· 1 entry
Farnsworth's image dissector camera tube transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, to a receiver in another room of his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco
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1926· 1 entry
And the two traveled to Berkeley, California, in a Pullman coach
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1923· 1 entry
The family moved to Provo, Utah, and Farnsworth attended Brigham Young High School that fall
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1921· 1 entry
“There had been attempts to devise a television system using mechanical disks and rotating mirrors and vibrating mirrors—all mechanical. My contribution was to take out the moving parts and make the thing entirely electronic, and that was the concept that I had when I was just a freshman in high school in the Spring of 1921 at age 14.”
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1918· 1 entry
The family moved to a relative's 240-acre (1
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-08-19.
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