Philo Farnsworth

Name: Philo Taylor Farnsworth

Born: August 19, 1906, near Beaver, Utah, USA

Death: March 11, 1971 (Age: 64)

Computer-related contributions

• American inventor and television pioneer.
• Inventor of the first electronic television.
• Invented the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the "image dissector."
• Had over 300 United States and foreign patents.

Honors and awards

• In 1999, TIME magazine included Farnsworth in "The TIME 100: The Most Important People of the Century."

Quotes

"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."
(to his son, on television)