At the age of 14, while plowing a field near Rigby Idaho, 14-year-old Philo T. Farnsworth was struck with an inspiration that is still with us today. In fact, the screen you are looking at is directly descended from that moment in the potato field.
So, it’s his fault!
September 7, 1927 - September 7, 2002
Television will be 75 years old on September 7.
Shows the crowd I hang out with—I was wondering which transvestite had turned 75 . . .
You’re 2 years and 4,000 miles out.
He’s the inventor of mechanical television. You travel in different circles, but no one I know owns one of those.
Yeah, but he didn’t invent television per se. He refined a previously existing concept.
Having said that, wasn’t he a clever bastard?