PHILO T. FARNSWORTH--THE CONFLICTING STORIES BEHIND THE MAN
THE MORE YOU READ, THE MORE CONFUSED YOU WILL BE
A True Fan's Tribute(excerpt below)
"Farnsworth was a 14 year old Mormon farm boy from Rigby Idaho with virtually no knowledge of electronics when he first sketched his idea for electronic video on a black board for his high-school science teacher in 1922."
Time Magazine Honors Farnsworth but Can't Decide on His Age(excerpt below)
"Many years later, testifying at a patent interference case, Tolman said Farnsworth's explanation of the theory of relativity was the clearest and most concise he had ever heard. Remember, this would have been in 1921, and Farnsworth would have been all of 15."
A Genius In Bronze; So He Did Have Knowledge of Electricity?(excerpt below)
"His parents expected him to become a concert violinist, but his interests drew him to experiments with electricity. At the age of 12, he built an electric motor and produced the first electric washing machine his family had ever owned."
Did He or Didn't He Invent TV?(excerpt below)
"But young Philo was not alone. At the same time, Russian immigrant Vladimir Zworykin had also designed a camera that focused an image through a lens onto an array of photoelectric cells coating the end of a tube. The electrical image formed by the cells would be scanned line-by-line by an electron beam and transmitted to a cathode-ray tube."