This website is being relocated from TypePad to WordPress. CLICK HERE …for all that old Farno-Goodness …while we’re still unpacking and re-arranging the furniture here at our new home (we’ve moved from...
Sadly, the myth that television was “too complex” for a single individual to invent persists. With its September 4, 2017 edition, The New Yorker magazine delivered its first-ever “Television Issue,”...
Jessica Moulton, with her grand uncle Skee Farnsworth and cousin Philo Krishna Farnsworth, accepting the induction of Philo Farnsworth into the TV Academy's Hall of Fame, along with Ron Howard, also inducted on March 11...
"The most effective lies are the ones built around a fragile germ of truth." —Andy Greenwald Please step aside as I dust of my lance and go looking for windmills one more time… For…...
This just showed up in my Google alerts: World's Fair Predicted TV's Future The article is a look back at the introduction of television at the NYC World's Fair in April, 1939 – the one where David...
We were in Los Angeles last month – for Philo Farnsworth's induction into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. I suppose I should post some photos, but the whole experience was… well, let's just...
There's been an increase in traffic to this site in the past week or so, which is quite possibly a result of the recent news that Philo T. Farnsworth – arguably the man who started it all – will be inducted next...
With the news of Neil Armstrong's passing yesterday , I am reminded that what always most impressed me about the moon landing in 1969 was not the fact of the landing itself, but the fact that more than half-a-billion people...
Now theater goers in Australia can hear Aaron Sorkin's twisted take on history, where "priority of invention" is awarded to the guy who actually LOST the case. Thankfully theatre goers will have a little help...
….if you've heard this one before. From a story that ran in the Investor's Business Daily last week: In 1929, Sarnoff secretly hired Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer and head of TV research at Westinghouse, where he...