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Philo Farnsworth
PHILO
FARNSWORTH

By Vincent Ramos Maghacut
Class: 7P

Who is Philo Farnsworth?
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born on 19 August, 1906 near Beaver, Utahan, USA to Serena and Lewis Farnsworth. He learnt a lot of things on his own when he was growing up because he lived on a farm and first got interested in electricity and electrons then. When he was in Rigby High School where he did really well in chemistry and physics he came up with the idea of electronically scanning pictures for transmission which means making images using electricity. For two years Philo went to Brigham Young University but he had to quit because of some problems at home but then people gave him money so he could move to California to work on making a television that was electric and not mechanical like the ones inventors tried to make before him. In 1972 Philo made a straight line appear on the electronic TV screen but even though he was the first person to do this and helped the most to make it work, he didn’t become as famous as Charles Francis Jenkins. A lot of people worked together to make the electric television work but Philo Farnsworth did a lot of the work. He died on 11 March 1971. I have chosen Philo Farnsworth because he has invented one of my favourite things in the world which is the television and I always wondered how it worked.
What are his expertise and his major inventions?
In high school Philo Farnsworth was one of the finest physicists in his class. Philo knew the basic way to operate televisions when he was only thirteen years old. He was interested in electrons and mechanics during his early life too and invented over 165 devices for different electronic things.
His most famous invention was the television but his other inventions helped to make a lot of electronic things better like night vision devices, the baby incubator, the astronomical telescope and even the microscope.
What were Philo Farnsworth’s positives and negatives



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