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Fourteen-year-old Philo Farnsworth wasn’t looking up at the sky while plowing the field at his father’s farm in Rigby, Idaho. He was looking down at the straight furrows that coursed over the earth.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Philo T. Farnsworth is hiding in plain sight wherever you look. He is unseen yet impossible to miss. Unknowingly, the average American home affirms Farnsworth eight hours each day.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) will be honored with the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences during the 75th ...

Philo T. Farnsworth is hiding in plain sight wherever you look. He is unseen yet impossible to miss. Unknowingly, the average American home affirms Farnsworth eight hours each day. When he died -- ...

In 1957, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth was honored by the Central Lions Club in Fort Wayne. Farnsworth, whose inventions included electronic television, manufactured televisions and other devices in ...

Well, I'll say it if no one else will. Sept. 7, 2002 marked the 75th anniversary of the birth or invention of television. Thank you, Philo T. Farnsworth, humble farmer and human being for the great ...

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WASHINGTON — NASA Television has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Award recognizes the agency for engineering ...

Elma Farnsworth, who died Thursday at 97, was the wife and main assistant to Philo Farnsworth, the man generally credited with the invention of television. The invention came in 1927, when Elma, ...

I’m curious to finally see how Aaron Sorkin will handle the Birth of a Television saga on stage in his play “The Farnsworth Invention,” which is set to begin its previews at Broadway’s Music Box ...