Short for television, a TV or telly is an electronics device that receives a visual and audio signal and plays it for the viewer. There is a debate over who is credited as being the inventor of the TV. The two candidates are Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian-born American who worked for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a boy in Beaver City, Utah. Vladimir held the patent for the TV, but it was Farnsworth who was the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927. The picture shows the Panasonic TH-58PZ750U, an example of a television.
Philo Farnsworth
Name: Philo Taylor Farnsworth
Born: August 19, 1906, near Beaver, Utah, USA
Death: March 11, 1971 (Age: 64)
Computer-related contributions
· American inventor and television pioneer.
· Inventor of the first electronic television.
· Invented the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the “image dissector.”
· Had over 300 United States and foreign patents.
Honors and awards
· In 1999, TIME magazine included Farnsworth in “The TIME 100: The Most Important People of the Century.”
Quotes
“There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.”
(to his son, on television)
