On September the 7th, Philo T. Farnsworth and his associates produced the first electronic television transmission/reception. The image was only the size of a postage stamp, but the prototype system proved that it was possible to scan an image electronically, line by line, and reconstitute it into an acceptable image elsewhere. Farnsworth first had the idea at the age of fourteen while plowing land on his family farm in Utah. Farnsworth is not well known because David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, tried to claim that RCA had developed the system first. This lead to years of litigation that Farnsworth eventually won, but his name has yet to be fully linked with his invention. See: http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/41.html