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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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. After the experiments of the 1950 and 1951 elections the BBC still faced considerable obstacles in reporting General Elections ...

Once all of these inventions were in place, they would still need further development before a successful television system could be invented. Karl Braun, Paul Nipkow and Lee DeForest ...

Baird went on to develop many other inventions, including early colour television, demonstrating his work across the world. Still suffering with his health, he died in 1946 at the age of 57.

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.