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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. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PDF's emphasis on preserving the visual appearance of documents across different software and hardware platforms poses challenges to the conversion of PDF documents to other file formats and the targeted extraction of information, such as text, images, tables, bibliographic information, and document metadata. Numerous tools and source code ...

  5. 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.

  6. David Sarnoff - Wikipedia

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    Zworykin had visited the laboratory of the inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, who had developed an Image Dissector, part of a system that could enable a working television. Zworykin was sufficiently impressed with Farnsworth's invention that he had his team at Westinghouse make several copies of the device for experimentation. [11]

  7. Timeline of optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Israeli physicist and inventor Emanuel Goldberg is granted a patent for his "Statistical machine" (US Patent 1838389), which was later acquired by IBM. It was described as capable of reading characters and converting them into standard telegraph code. [1] 1938 Invention

  8. Statue of Philo Farnsworth - Wikipedia

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    Philo T. Farnsworth is a bronze sculpture depicting the American inventor and television pioneer of the same name by James Avati, installed at the United States Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Utah in 1990.

  9. 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