via wesleyvaclav.blogspot.com We made it through just the first half of the the 2-hour performance before heading to Cool Basil at 8801 University in Clive for some Thai food that was better than anything The Farnsworth Invention served up on 42nd Street in Des Moines. We weren't the only people who bailed out after the […]
Nice bio at Ancestry Magazine online: But in other ways, Farnsworth’s achievements have gone largely unnoticed. He is said to be "one of the greatest, yet least publicized scientists of our generation." In an age where technology seems to grow from a team of engineers in a corporate plant, we find it difficult to believe
Originally a screenplay, Aaron Sorkin's "The Farnsworth Invention" might best be suited for the medium that is its subject. The invention — one that Sorkin knows something about, having created "The West Wing" — is television. Except for the title character — Philo Farnsworth, a Ads by Google Hit the ground soaring.Put HR in the
Aldrin and Philo T. Farnsworth, together again for the first time: The TV academy said Tuesday that Aldrin, part of the 1969 moon mission, will accept the Philo T. Farnsworth Award on behalf of NASA at the Emmy engineering awards on Saturday. The honor, named for TV inventor Farnsworth, recognizes an agency, company or institution
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This is the first we’re hearing about a new series of postage stamps honoring early television stars having their “first day of issue” in Rigby, Idaho: Tuesday morning at the Philo T. Farnsworth TV and Pioneer Museum in Rigby, a rare event happened. The newest postage stamps were unveiled and they’re commemorating TV classics. A
So I learn from my Google Alerts this morning that there will be a new "children's book" biography of our man Farnsworth released on September 8, 2009. It's called The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth and according to the synopsis at Amazon.com: Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm
TV Academy to honor NASA for televising the Apollo 11 moon walk: The space agency will receive the Philo T. Farnsworth Award in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the innovations behind the broadcast of the first moonwalk. The "Philo T. Farnsworth Award" is a special Emmy that
That’s what Philo T. Farnsworth said to his wife as they sat in their living room on July 20, 1969, and watched Neil Armstrong take “one giant leap for mankind.” Watched. Because of the thing that he invented 40+ years earlier. It’s been said before, but bears repeating: amazing as the moon landing / walk
I haven't watched it yet, but I'm recording episodes of a new SciFi (now "Syfy Network") Channel Series called "Warehouse 13." It's an action-adventure thing essentially constructed around the concept of the warehouse scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. As described in to WIRED,the show is about… …a cavernous warehouse filled
…when it keeps getting in the way of a “good story”? I just found this item in a sidebar to a Wall Street Journal Online story about how Netflix plans to maintain its business after the demise of DVDs and all video delivery converts to some form of streaming. The sidebar attempts to summarize the
