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For the American physician, see Philo Judson Farnsworth.

Philo T. Farnsworth
Farnsworth in 1936
Born	Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-08-19)August 19, 1906 Beaver, Utah, U.S.^[1]
Died	(1971-03-11)March 11, 1971 (aged 64) Holladay, Utah, U.S.
Resting place	Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, U.S.
Occupation	Scientist
Employers	Philco Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation International Telephone and Telegraph
Known for	Inventor of the first fully electronic television; over 169 United States and foreign patents
Spouse	Elma \"Pem\" Gardner (1908\u20132006)
Children	4 sons
Relatives	Agnes Ann Farnsworth (sister)

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 \u2013 March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.^[2]^[3] He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible modern electronic video.^[4] 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.^[5]^[6] Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera\u2014which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.^[7]^[8]\n

In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth Fusor, employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Like many fusion devices, it was not a practical device for generating nuclear power, although it provides a viable source of neutrons.^[9] The design of this device has been the inspiration for other fusion approaches, including the Polywell reactor concept.^[10] Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television.\n

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v t e Telecommunications
History	\n Beacon \n Broadcasting \n Cable protection system \n Cable TV \n Communications satellite \n Computer network \n Data compression\n audio \n DCT \n image \n video \n Digital media\n Internet video \n online video platform \n social media \n streaming \n Drums \n Edholm's law \n Electrical telegraph \n Fax \n Heliographs \n Hydraulic telegraph \n Information Age \n Information revolution \n Internet \n Mass media \n Mobile phone\n Smartphone \n Optical telecommunication \n Optical telegraphy \n Pager \n Photophone \n Prepaid mobile phone \n Radio \n Radiotelephone \n Satellite communications \n Semaphore\n Phryctoria \n Semiconductor\n device \n MOSFET \n transistor \n Smoke signals \n Telecommunications history \n Telautograph \n Telegraphy \n Teleprinter (teletype) \n Telephone \n The Telephone Cases \n Television\n digital \n streaming \n Undersea telegraph line \n Videotelephony \n Whistled language \n Wireless revolution \n
Pioneers	\n Nasir Ahmed \n Edwin Howard Armstrong \n Mohamed M. Atalla \n John Logie Baird \n Paul Baran \n John Bardeen \n Alexander Graham Bell \n Emile Berliner \n Tim Berners-Lee \n Francis Blake \n Jagadish Chandra Bose \n Charles Bourseul \n Walter Houser Brattain \n Vint Cerf \n Claude Chappe \n Yogen Dalal \n Donald Davies \n Daniel Davis Jr. \n Amos Dolbear \n Thomas Edison \n Philo Farnsworth \n Reginald Fessenden \n Lee de Forest \n Elisha Gray \n Oliver Heaviside \n Robert Hooke \n Erna Schneider Hoover \n Harold Hopkins \n Gardiner Greene Hubbard \n Bob Kahn \n Dawon Kahng \n Charles K. Kao \n Narinder Singh Kapany \n Hedy Lamarr \n Roberto Landell \n Innocenzo Manzetti \n Guglielmo Marconi \n Robert Metcalfe \n Antonio Meucci \n Samuel Morse \n Jun-ichi Nishizawa \n Charles Grafton Page \n Radia Perlman \n Alexander Stepanovich Popov \n Tivadar Pusk\u00e1s \n Johann Philipp Reis \n Claude Shannon \n Almon Brown Strowger \n Henry Sutton \n Charles Sumner Tainter \n Nikola Tesla \n Camille Tissot \n Alfred Vail \n Thomas A. Watson \n Charles Wheatstone \n Vladimir K. Zworykin \n Internet pioneers \n
Transmission media	\n Coaxial cable \n Fiber-optic communication\n optical fiber \n Free-space optical communication \n Molecular communication \n Radio waves\n wireless \n Transmission line\n telecommunication circuit \n
Network topology and switching	\n Bandwidth \n Links \n Network switching\n circuit \n packet \n Nodes\n terminal \n Telephone exchange \n
Multiplexing	\n Space-division \n Frequency-division \n Time-division \n Polarization-division \n Orbital angular-momentum \n Code-division \n
Concepts	\n Communication protocol \n Computer network \n Data transmission \n Store and forward \n Telecommunications equipment \n
Types of network	\n Cellular network \n Ethernet \n ISDN \n LAN \n Mobile \n NGN \n Public Switched Telephone \n Radio \n Television \n Telex \n UUCP \n WAN \n Wireless network \n
Notable networks	\n ARPANET \n BITNET \n CYCLADES \n FidoNet \n Internet \n Internet2 \n JANET \n NPL network \n Toasternet \n Usenet \n
Locations	\n Africa \n Americas\n North \n South \n Antarctica \n Asia \n Europe \n Oceania \n Global telecommunications regulation bodies \n
\n $\"\"$ Telecommunication portal \n $\"\"$ Category \n $\"\"$ Outline \n $\"\"$ Commons \n

v t e Time 100: The Most Important People of the 20th Century
Leaders & revolutionaries	\n David Ben-Gurion \n Winston Churchill \n Mahatma Gandhi \n Mikhail Gorbachev \n Adolf Hitler \n Ho Chi Minh \n Pope John Paul II \n Ruhollah Khomeini \n Martin Luther King Jr. \n Vladimir Lenin \n Nelson Mandela \n Mao Zedong \n Ronald Reagan \n Eleanor Roosevelt \n Franklin D. Roosevelt \n Theodore Roosevelt \n Margaret Sanger \n Margaret Thatcher \n Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel \n Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa \n
Artists & entertainers	\n Louis Armstrong \n Lucille Ball \n The Beatles \n Marlon Brando \n Coco Chanel \n Charlie Chaplin \n Le Corbusier \n Bob Dylan \n T. S. Eliot \n Aretha Franklin \n Martha Graham \n Jim Henson \n James Joyce \n Pablo Picasso \n Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein \n Bart Simpson \n Frank Sinatra \n Steven Spielberg \n Igor Stravinsky \n Oprah Winfrey \n
Builders & titans	\n Stephen Bechtel Sr. \n Leo Burnett \n Willis Carrier \n Walt Disney \n Henry Ford \n Bill Gates \n Amadeo Giannini \n Ray Kroc \n Est\u00e9e Lauder \n William Levitt \n Lucky Luciano \n Louis B. Mayer \n Charles E. Merrill \n Akio Morita \n Walter Reuther \n Pete Rozelle \n David Sarnoff \n Juan Trippe \n Sam Walton \n Thomas J. Watson Jr. \n
Scientists & thinkers	\n Leo Baekeland \n Tim Berners-Lee \n Rachel Carson \n Albert Einstein \n Philo Farnsworth \n Enrico Fermi \n Alexander Fleming \n Sigmund Freud \n Robert H. Goddard \n Kurt G\u00f6del \n Edwin Hubble \n John Maynard Keynes \n Leakey family \n Jean Piaget \n Jonas Salk \n William Shockley \n Alan Turing \n Francis Crick & James Watson \n Ludwig Wittgenstein \n Wright brothers \n
Heroes & icons	\n Muhammad Ali \n The American G.I. \n Lady Diana Spencer \n Anne Frank \n Billy Graham \n Che Guevara \n Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay \n Helen Keller \n Kennedy family \n Bruce Lee \n Charles Lindbergh \n Harvey Milk \n Marilyn Monroe \n Emmeline Pankhurst \n Rosa Parks \n Pel\u00e9 \n Jackie Robinson \n Andrei Sakharov \n Mother Teresa \n Bill W. \n

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Fusor

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Fort Wayne sites

Marion, Indiana factory

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20 April, 1939