Philo T. Farnsworth

Elma Farnsworth on the story of the birth of her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's talents 

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's photographic memory

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's phone call with Albert Einstein

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo entering a contest in a magazine

Elma Farnsworth on Philo's idea for electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on getting engaged to Philo T. Farnsworth

Elma Farnsworth on Philo T. Farnsworth telling her his idea for electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on Philo T. Farnsworth hiring George Everson, Les Gorrell, and Cliff Gardner; on getting married

Elma Farnsworth on moving to Los Angeles with Philo T. Farnsworth to set up a laboratory

Elma Farnsworth on police mistaking her husband Philo's lab for a home distillery

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo patenting television in 1927

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo getting funding, and setting up materials and personnel for inventing television; on her role in the creation of television

Elma Farnsworth on the reaction of her and her husband, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth (and colleagues Cliff Gardner and Carl Christensen), on September 7, 1927 when he produced the first all-electronic TV picture (a simple straight line) with his Image Dissector tube

Elma Farnsworth on Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and producer Joseph Schenck visiting Philo T. Farnsworth's lab to see television (where they surmised its threat to the movie industry) circa early-1930s

Elma Farnsworth on the drawbacks to mechanical disc television and the obstacles Philo encountered when creating electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on famous visitors to Philo T. Farnsworth's lab, including Vladimir Zworykin

Elma Farnsworth on Philo T. Farnsworth raising funds to work on inventing television and forming his company, Television, Inc.

Elma Farnsworth on Philo T. Farnsworth's dollar sign demonstration of television for his financial backers

Elma Farnsworth on public demonstrations of television to interest people in licensing Philo T. Farnsworth's patents; on Philco licensing Farnsworth's television for an experimental television station and Phil leaving the company

Elma Farnsworth on Philo T. Farnsworth starting the Eastern division of Television, Inc., the patents the company held, and Philo's aspirations for television

Elma Farnsworth on Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrating television at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia - the first public demonstration of television in 1934

Elma Farnsworth on how young Philo balanced conducting research and doing chores while growing up on a farm

Elma Farnsworth on how her husband Philo T. Farnsworth used to solve problems while he slept

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth putting her image on television

Elma Farnsworth on RCA's David Sarnoff's attempts to buy Philo T. Farnsworth's patent for television

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth lobbying for a commercial television license

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's battle with RCA for electronic television's patents

Elma Farnsworth on RCA licensing Philo T. Farnsworth's patents in 1939 - the first time RCA ever licensed a patent 

Elma Farnsworth on the creation of the Farnsworth Radio and Television Corporation and their workings with John Logie Baird, creator of the mechanical spinning disc television system

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's difficulties with disloyal personnel and the formation of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Company

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's poor health circa 1940

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth avoiding the television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair

Elma Farnsworth on the expiration of Philo T. Farnsworth's original television patents and the beginning of manufacturing television sets

Elma Farnsworth on the International Telephone and Telegraph Company purchasing Farnsworth Television and Radio Company and Philo T. Farnsworth working on satellites and space exploration

Elma Farnsworth on several of her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's inventions, including the baby incubator

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's camera tube being a part of the Apollo mission to the moon in 1969

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's fusion and hydroponic work, and his love of science fiction

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth being asked to work on the Manhattan Project

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's phone call with Albert Einstein

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's work on fusion at the end of his life

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's appearance on I've Got a Secret  (the same night Buster Keaton was on the program)

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's thoughts on commercial television towards the end of his life

Elma Farnsworth on why history has largely forgotten her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on what she thinks her husband Philo T. Farnsworth might have changed if he had the chance to do so; on whether or not an underdog can win in the American system

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's determination and spirit

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's achievements with electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's achievements at such a young age

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's personality and strengths

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's colleagues

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's colleagues and people he looked up to in the field; on demonstrating electronic television for John Logie Baird (inventor of mechanical television)

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's family members and their contributions to his work

Elma Farnsworth on a photo of a statue of her husband Philo T. Farnsworth holding an image dissector tube

Elma Farnsworth on a photo of her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's television demonstration at the Franklin Institute

Jeff Kisseloff on his interview with Elma Farnsworth, wife of Philo Farnsworth, and Danny Simon

Don Pike on his earliest days in television with Philo T. Farnsworth and the early equipment and sets

Don Pike on meeting Philo T. Farnsworth and going to work for him

Don Pike on the shop where he worked with Philo T. Farnsworth and the equipment they used to build cameras and televisions

Don Pike on building early televisions for Philo T. Farnsworth 

Don Pike on manufacturing the tubes for Philo T. Farnsworth's televisions and how they worked

Don Pike on being involved in Philo T. Farnsworth's company Farnsworth Television and Radio

Don Pike on Farnsworth Television's facilities and its goals

Don Pike on Philo T. Farnsworth becoming ill and leaving his company, and other inventions that Farnsworth was working on

Don Pike on the patent battle between Farnsworth's company and RCA

Don Pike on the impact of Philo T. Farnsworth's declining health on his research, and RCA's iconoscope tube

Don Pike on the legacy of Philo T. Farnsworth