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Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV

Over 100 weeks, we"re going to countdown to the Centennial of Video on Sept 7, 2027 by recounting the 100 Top Moments in the First 100 Years of Television.

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00:12:51

E4: Before 1927 #4: Cathode Rays and Radio Waves

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/22

Today’s installment covers two more technologies needed to achieve real television. One is another step toward the electronic picture. The other redefines how those pictures would be sent and received. Chapters (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Before 1927(00:02:02) - The Years That Changed Television(00:11:42) - 100 Years of TV

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00:12:51

E4: Before 1927 #4: Cathode Rays and Radio Waves

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/22

Today’s installment covers two more technologies needed to achieve real television. One is another step toward the electronic picture. The other redefines how those pictures would be sent and received. Chapters (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Before 1927(00:02:02) - The Years That Changed Television(00:11:42) - 100 Years of TV

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00:09:31

E3: Before 1927 #3: Wheels, Vacuums, and Rays

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/19

Continuing our look back on the myriad observations, discoveries and inventions that preceded 1927. In the last episode, we talked about the evolution of electrical science in the 19th century and the first advances in modern communications – the telegraph and the telephone – and the first discoveries and inventions around the interaction of light and electromagnetism. In this episode we'll look at the first genuine attempts at television, and the

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00:09:31

E3: Before 1927 #3: Wheels, Vacuums, and Rays

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/19

Continuing our look back on the myriad observations, discoveries and inventions that preceded 1927. In the last episode, we talked about the evolution of electrical science in the 19th century and the first advances in modern communications – the telegraph and the telephone – and the first discoveries and inventions around the interaction of light and electromagnetism. In this episode we'll look at the first genuine attempts at television, and the

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00:09:23

E2: Before 1927 #2: Electric Messages

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/18

Given the indispensable role that electricity plays in modern life, it's worth remembering: humans of some kind have roamed the Earth for hundreds of millennia, but have only mastered electromagnetism over the past two hundred years. Across the one hundred years, numerous observations, discoveries and inventions brought science to the thresold of "moving pictures that can fly though the air. In this episode of 100 Years of Television we dive into the

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00:09:23

E2: Before 1927 #2: Electric Messages

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/18

Given the indispensable role that electricity plays in modern life, it's worth remembering: humans of some kind have roamed the Earth for hundreds of millennia, but have only mastered electromagnetism over the past two hundred years. Across the one hundred years, numerous observations, discoveries and inventions brought science to the thresold of "moving pictures that can fly though the air. In this episode of 100 Years of Television we dive into the

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00:11:49

E1: Before 1927 #1: Persistence, Illusions, and...

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/17

Before we can start the Countdown – and make the case that Philo T. Farnsworth invented television – we need to look back on the discoveries, speculations, false starts, and breakthroughs that finally came to fruition in San Francisco on September 7th, 1927. This episode of TV100 starts with Aristotle, who observed the phenomenon of "persistence of vision" that was first explore scientifically in 1824 by Peter Mark Roget – the same guy who compiled the

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00:06:04

Introducing Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/06

To have right idea is one thing; to have the right idea and make it work is everything.--Roger Penrose You've probably never hear of Philo T. Farnsworth. Maybe it's time you did. We take our screen-based 2st century for granted, but the long-neglected fact is that every video screen on the planet can trace its origins to a sketch that Farnsworth drew for his high school science teacher in 1922 - when he was all of 14 years old. On September 7, 1927, Farnsworth conducted the

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00:06:04

E0: Introducing Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/06

To have right idea is one thing; to have the right idea and make it work is everything.--Roger Penrose You've probably never hear of Philo T. Farnsworth. Maybe it's time you did. We take our screen-based 2st century for granted, but the long-neglected fact is that every video screen on the planet can trace its origins to a sketch that Farnsworth drew for his high school science teacher in 1922 - when he was all of 14 years old. On September 7, 1927,

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