The father of television grew to hate his own invention — until one miraculous day Philo Farnsworth invented television, had his idea bullied from him, and began to view his own creation as a curse ...

Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

TV dinners have roots even before the 1950s, but a few things happened in the mid 20th century that saw the stratospheric ...

Perhaps the most recurrent name when speaking of the inventor of television is that of the Scotsman John Logie Baird (1888-1946), although his advances would have been impossible without the German ...

Inventor Charles Francis Jenkins, second from the left, shows his Mirror Drum Television Receiver in Washington, D.C., 1928. Jenkins conducted the first demonstrations of the technology that would ...

There’s a new urinal design in town. Move over, inventor of the television Philo T. Farnsworth, there’s a new greatest invention to come out of Utah. Two, actually.

Todd S. Purdum's biography explores the impact on American culture by the Cuban-born entertainer who (as husband and business partner of Lucille Ball) changed the rules of TV.

Though he was not the sole inventor of television, Farnsworth helped pioneer its practical use. Despite this stature, he appeared on national television just once. And no one knew who he was.

Television's inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth, was born near Beaver, Utah, in 1906 before moving to Rigby, Idaho, when he was 12. It wasn't long before he came up with an idea that would radically ...

The popularisation of television makes its mark on election night. Elections and Political Broadcasting The Invention of General Election Broadcasting: 1922 – 1950 ...

A similar panic greeted the invention of television (and led to the last big Hollywood strike, in 1960). But again, the new tech made the famous even more so, bringing them into every living room.

The popularisation of television makes its mark on election night. After the experiments of the 1950 and 1951 elections the BBC still faced considerable obstacles in reporting General Elections ...