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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...