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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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E11: Countdown #96: Berlin, 1936

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/11/02

In addition to providing a showcase for Aryan Supremacy, Adolph Hitler's grand plan for the 1936 Berlin Olympics included demonstrating Nazi Germany's technical expertise with the first televised transmission of an international sporting event. His grand designs fell short when two Americans – Jesse Owens and Philo T. Farnsworth - stole the show. Chapters (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 2027(00:01:28) - The Birth of Television in

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E10: Countdown #97: Priority of Invention - 1935

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/26

In 1930 – seven years after applying for his patent – Vladimir Zworykin visited Farnsworth's laboratory in San Francisco. At the time, he was still employed by Westinghouse, and was given a three-day tour of Farnsworth's operations with the understanding that Westinghouse was considering taking a license for Farnsworth's patents. When he was handed a freshly-fabricated Image Dissector tube, everybody present heard him say This is a beautiful

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E9: Countdown #98: The Picture Gets Its Sound – 1935

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/19

Television isn't just moving pictures that fly through the air. There is sound, too. And the clear, static-free audio we take for granted owes its existence to another of the electronics industry's unsung heroes: Edwin Howard Armstrong. Chapters (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison(00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 2027(00:01:29) - In the Elevator of Edwin Howard Armstrong(00:07:38) - 100 Years of Television

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E9: Countdown #98: The Picture Gets Its Sound – 1935

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/19

Television isn't just moving pictures that fly through the air. There is sound, too. And the clear, static-free audio we take for granted owes its existence to another of the electronics industry's unsung heroes: Edwin Howard Armstrong. Chapters (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison(00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 2027(00:01:29) - In the Elevator of Edwin Howard Armstrong(00:07:38) - 100 Years of Television

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E8: Countdown #99: The Franklin Institute - 1934

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/12

In the 1930s, video technology evolved rapidly in a world-wide race to deliver television to the marketplace. In the United States, the principal contestants were the giant Radio Corporation of America and a tiny company spearheaded by the wunderkind inventor from Utah by way of San Francisco, Philo T. Farnsworth. RCA had the capital, the technical resources, and the market clout to extend their dominance in all things radio into the nascent new

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E8: Countdown #99: The Franklin Institute - 1934

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/12

In the 1930s, video technology evolved rapidly in a world-wide race to deliver television to the marketplace. In the United States, the principal contestants were the giant Radio Corporation of America and a tiny company spearheaded by the wunderkind inventor from Utah by way of San Francisco, Philo T. Farnsworth. RCA had the capital, the technical resources, and the market clout to extend their dominance in all things radio into the nascent new

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00:13:36

E7: Countdown #100: Black Light Machine – 1928

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/05

The arrival of real (electronic) television was announced in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sept 3, 1927 - even as companies like AT&T were getting headlines for their mechanical systems along with independent experimenters like Britain's John Logie Baird. But once the news of Philo Farnsworth's invention hit the wire services, the race was on to reap the rewards of bringing a new medium to the marketplace. Chapters (00:00:00) - 100 Years of

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E6: 1927 - Prologue To The Countdown

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/03

To have the right idea and make it work is everything. Meet Philo T. Farnsworth, the teenager who had the right idea and the young adult who made it work. …While the great minds of science, financed by the biggest companies in the world, wrestled with 19th century answers to a 20th century problem, the summer of 1921 found Philo T. Farnsworth… strapped to a horse-drawn disc-harrow, cultivating a field row by row, turning the soil and dreaming about

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E6: 1927 - Prologue To The Countdown – 1927

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/10/03

To have the right idea and make it work is everything. Meet Philo T. Farnsworth, the teenager who had the right idea and the young adult who made it work. …While the great minds of science, financed by the biggest companies in the world, wrestled with 19th century answers to a 20th century problem, the summer of 1921 found Philo T. Farnsworth… strapped to a horse-drawn disc-harrow, cultivating a field row by row, turning the soil and dreaming about

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00:09:05

E5: Before 1927 #5: It's A Quantum Thing

Philo T. Farnsworth & 100 Years of TV ·

2025/09/25

In the last episode, we talked about cathode rays and radio waves. But before this meandering journey through the history of science and technology can reach its destination — the actual inventing of television — physics itself has to make, quite literally, a quantum leap.

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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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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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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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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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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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