Philo T. Farnsworth Transmitted the First Television Image

Trivia
on September 30, 2001

Philo T. Farnsworth of Rigby (pop. 2,998) transmitted the first electronic television image in history-in 1927 at age 20. He’d come up with the idea at age 14. The Farnsworth TV and Pioneer Museum in Rigby has a collection dedicated to Farnsworth.

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