The Centennial Is Coming
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The Countdown Has Begun
The Countdown to the Centennial of Television on September 7, 2027 has begun. Watch the video above where author Paul Schatzkin discusses the significance of September 7, 1927 in the annals of human history. Then hop over to the countdown and follow along as we recall the Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years
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For the Birthplace of Video: A Not-So-Modest Proposal
Paul Schatzkin, author of The Boy Who Invented Television, discusses the historical significance of 202 Green Street in an interview conducted just outside the building. ____________________ [return to tvcentennial.com] The address is 202 Green Street, San Francisco, California. And while that address lacks the immediate recognition of, say, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or No. 10 Downing
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“Emmy”…. Meet “Immy”
As the industry ramps up for Sunday’s 2024 Emmy Awards telecast, have a look at the trophy’s namesake: The Image Orthicon tube. It is based on patent number 2,087,683 – which was awarded to Philo T. Farnsworth in 1937.* This is the camera tube that supplied most or the television signals in the late
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The Future Is Prologue: Cosmic Summit 2024
Some of you know that for the past couple of months I have been ‘laser focused’ (I actually hate that expression, but it does seem to express the ADHD way I go at some things) on the presentation I delivered to The Cosmic Summit on Saturday June 15. I have to admit that being part
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Now Available on Audible and Amazon: The Audiobook!
As Philo-The-Third told me, his father – Philo T. Farnsworth The Second – had ‘two major cases in his life. The first was electronic video. You wouldn’t be looking at this if he hadn’t cracked that one back in the 1920s. Over the course of the next thirty-plus years, Farnsworth gained as much first-hand knowledge
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Coming Soon: TBWIT – The Audiobook!
More than fifty years after I first heard of Philo T. Farnsworth (in the summer if 1973)… More than twenty years after The Boy Who Invented Television was first published… And a year after it was re-published (after the release of The Man Who Mastered Gravity)… There is finally going to be an audiobook edition!
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The Quantum Origins Of Television
Quantum Mechanics had a moment last summer, thanks to ‘Oppenheimer.’ But ‘Oppenheimer’ also reminded me of an important historical footnote that too often gets overlooked in our preoccupation with blowing things up and the prospect of human annihilation: that television, and video in general, also derives from the same scientific breakthroughs in the early 20th
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Oppenheimer, Einstein – And Farnsworth
Have you seen Oppenheimer yet? As the world braced itself over recent weeks for the cultural shock wave of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, I have been preoccupied by one scene in the trailer. It’s the scene where Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) meets Albert Einstein (Tom Conti) at the edge of a pond on the grounds of the
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More Oppenheimer
Visitors to this site who might want to follow an erudite discussion of the myriad issues around the theatrical release of Oppenheimer might want to hop on over to this discussion at fusor.net. Registration is required to add your 2¢.