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  2. Philo Farnsworth - Wikipedia

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    Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. [ 4 ]

  3. The Farnsworth Invention - Wikipedia

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    On April 29, 2004, New Line Cinema announced they had acquired the drama script The Farnsworth Invention from award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin. Thomas Schlamme was set to direct. The release read in part: " The Farnsworth Invention tells the story of Philo Farnsworth , a boy genius born in Beaver , Utah , who later moved to Rigby , Idaho ...

  4. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.

  5. Image dissector - Wikipedia

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    A Farnsworth image dissector tube. An image dissector, also called a dissector tube, is a video camera tube in which photocathode emissions create an "electron image" which is then swept up, down and across an anode to produce an electrical signal representing the visual image.

  6. List of people considered father or mother of a field - Wikipedia

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    See Invention of the telephone: Television: Paul Gottlieb Nipkow [130] [131] Philo T. Farnsworth [132] Vladimir Zworykin [133] [134] John Logie Baird [135] [136] Co-inventors of the electronic television, Farnsworth invented the Image dissector while Zworykin created the Iconoscope, both fully electronic forms of

  7. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    Philo Farnsworth: 1906 Television [52] 1984 Theodore Harold Maiman: 1927 Laser [53] 1984 Wallace Carothers: 1896 Synthetic rubber, nylon [54] 1984 William Merriam Burton: 1865 Catalytic cracking [55] 1985 Louis Marius Moyroud: 1914 Photocomposing machine [56] 1985 Marvin Camras: 1916 Magnetic recording [57] 1985 Rene Alphonse Higonnet: 1902 ...

  8. Iconoscope - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, in 1933, Philo Farnsworth had also applied for a patent for a device that used a charge storage plate and a low-velocity electron scanning beam. A corresponding patent was issued in 1937, [26] but Farnsworth did not know that the low-velocity scanning beam must land perpendicular to the target and he never actually built such a tube ...

  9. Charles Francis Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Charles Francis Jenkins (August 22, 1867 – June 6, 1934) was an American engineer who was a pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies.