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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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    The Farnsworth Invention is a stage play by Aaron Sorkin adapted from an unproduced screenplay about Philo Farnsworth's first fully functional and completely all-electronic television system and David Sarnoff, the RCA president who stole the design.

  4. 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 ...

  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. American Genius - Wikipedia

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    American Genius is an American documentary series focusing on the lives of inventors and pioneers who have been responsible for major developments in their areas of expertise and helped shape the course of history.

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

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    Inventor of the spread spectrum, created Spektrum to promote its use. Telephone: Johann Philipp Reis Antonio Meucci Alexander Graham Bell [129] See Invention of the telephone: Television: Paul Gottlieb Nipkow [130] [131] Philo T. Farnsworth [132] Vladimir Zworykin [133] [134] John Logie Baird [135] [136]

  8. Fusor - Wikipedia

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    A Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor is the most common type of fusor. [1] This design came from work by Philo T. Farnsworth in 1964 and Robert L. Hirsch in 1967. [2] [3] A variant type of fusor had been proposed previously by William Elmore, James L. Tuck, and Ken Watson at the Los Alamos National Laboratory [4] though they never built the machine.

  9. Philo T. Farnsworth Award - Wikipedia

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    The Philo T. Farnsworth Award (also called the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award) [2] is a non-competitive award presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) as part of the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards to "an agency, company or institution whose contributions over time have significantly impacted television technology and engineering". [1]