Everybody knows who Idaho’s most famous inventor was: Rigby’s Philo Farnsworth thought up the essential technology for television in 1927. But who’s No. 2? Gotta be Boisean Caleb Chung ...

In Manhattan, however, lean young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, one of the two top U. S. televisors, announced to the Institute of Radio Engineers a new cold-cathode amplifier which he believed would ...

Philo Farnsworth came up with it while working his family farm in Rigby. That led to us listing other Idaho inventions, like the chair lift in Sun Valley, the Pulaski tool in Wallace, and of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pay-TV bundle Philo is hitting some notable operational milestones in its eighth year as a full-fledged pay-TV service. The company has hit 1.3 million subscribers, posting a 20% year ...

Thereafter he worked for the Capehart-Farnsworth Corporation studying infrared and electron-optic devices. Homer Capehart and Philo Farnsworth were famous for inventing numerous devices including ...

When it comes to building technology, it’s hard not to think of Philo Farnsworth. Born in 1906, Philo was a farm boy who collected issues of Science and Invention magazines. At 11 years old ...

The same year, Philo Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the television. A 1940 print advertisement by RCA promotes the fax machine. It wasn't long before innovators in education began using ...

Utah has long been represented by Philo T. Farnsworth in the Capitol Visitor Center and by Brigham Young in the National Statuary Hall. The selection of Philo Farnsworth is easily justified.

The walls of the Capitol complex are lined with inventors such as Thomas Edison of Ohio and Utah’s Philo Farnsworth – who is credited with helping create television. "Johnny Cash walked the line.