"This has made it all worthwhile. (The live televised first step by Neil Armstrong on the moon.)"
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The Boy Who Invented Television ā Auth. Paul Schatzkin
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Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 ā March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television. He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and ca
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