TV

Short for television, a TV or telly is an electronics device that receives a visual and audio signal and plays it for the viewer. There is a debate over who is credited as being the inventor of the TV. The two candidates are Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian-born American who worked for Westinghouse, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a boy in Beaver City, Utah. Vladimir held the patent for the TV, but it was Farnsworth who was the first person to successfully transmit a TV signal on September 7, 1927. The picture shows the Panasonic TH-58PZ750U, an example of a television.

Philo Farnsworth

Name: Philo Taylor Farnsworth

Born: August 19, 1906, near Beaver, Utah, USA

Death: March 11, 1971 (Age: 64)

Computer-related contributions

·         American inventor and television pioneer.

·         Inventor of the first electronic television.

·         Invented the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the "image dissector."

·         Had over 300 United States and foreign patents.

Honors and awards

·         In 1999, TIME magazine included Farnsworth in "The TIME 100: The Most Important People of the Century."

Quotes

"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."
(to his son, on television)