News started percolating last week of a new iPhone app named for Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of (modern, electronic) television. The app is called — appropriately enough "PHILO", and professes to bring "social networking" -type interaction to TeeVee viewing. According to the app's website, Philo helps you enjoy TV with your friends and […]
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Apparently it was Pablo Picasso who surmised that "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and I suppose that little play on words is true more often than not. But in the case of "The Farnsworth Inventions" — which has recently been revived in Chicago, "art" is the lie that perpetuates a lie. This
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Apparently this outfit has obtained the rights to show this footage, originally released in 1936 by Paramount's "Eyes and Ears of the World" newsreel service. It's a good reflection of how TeeVee looked and worked in its formative years. Click the image to open the page with the video: (I think the date that
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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
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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
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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
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