The heartbreaking story behind the invention of television

Philo Farnsworth (August 19, 1906-11 March 1971) is considered the father of modern television. he came up with this idea when he was 14 years old by drafting the first drawing of radio today. Despite this, Philo Farnsworth was not like other great inventors when he had a dislike for someone who asked him about his "child". The story begins when he has just passed 22.

Television used to be spurned by its "father"

At the age of 21, Farnsworth opened his own lab in Los Angeles and submitted his first patent on the television . After creating a rudimentary prototype, he sought investors to fund the development of the device he called the "image analyzer".

Philo Farnsworrth and his brainchild.

A well-known financial expert expressed interest in this invention. Farnsworth showed him and selected a symbolic image to convey to his prototype television: a dollar sign. Immediately, this person agreed to sponsor this invaluable invention.

Two weeks later, on the 22nd birthday, Farnsworth made a great breakthrough in his life. He told the press that his image analyzer will eventually make electronic television a reality. Farnsworth's San Francisco Chronicle posted on the front page, praising his " revolutionary" television system.

Farnsworth's fame was a threat to him when the idea was stolen by an expert from the RCA major news agency, Vladimir Zworykin . While Farnsworth was still making money to mass-produce his television, RCA launched a major marketing campaign and claimed that they invented electronic television.

Immediately after learning that he had been confined, Farnsworth had an aversion to RCA and his own "child" . Although Farnsworth later filed a series of patent infringement claims against RCA, he eventually won after years of costly debates in the courtroom, but that much effort was over late. During the litigation, RCA temporarily rewritten history and defeated him in the market.

The Apollo 11 event broadcast on television was the medicine for "mental illness" by Philo Farnsworth.

The resentment of Philo Farnsworth had to wait until 1969, two years before his death, to be completely cleared when he and his family admired Apollo 11 's crew walking on the Moon through television.

Although all modern televisions inherited directly from Farnsworth's design, he never had the financial success of his invention . Today the number of people who know his name is less.