80 Years Ago Today...Inventor Philo Farnsworth Transmits His First Electronic Television Image
Fri, 09/07/2007
80 years ago today, on September 7, 1927, 21-year-old television inventor Philo Farnsworth transmitted his first electronic television image using an image dissector camera tube created in his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco . The first image, a single straight line (on a glass slide), was one of the early successes in the race to create electronic television. In her Archive of American Television interview conducted in 1996, Farnsworth's widow, Elma Farnsworth discusses her...