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1906 Aug 19, Philo T. Farnsworth (d.1971), inventor (electronic TV), was born in Beaver County, Utah.
(http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfarnsworth.htm)
1927 Apr 7, Philo Farnsworth first demonstrated a working prototype of a TV. His first tele-electronic image was transmitted on a glass slide in his SF lab at 202 Green St. AT&T Bell Labs scientists invented long-distance TV transmission. Later an audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
(SFEC, 8/18/96, BR p.3)(WSJ, 9/22/95, p.A-7)(AP, 4/7/97)(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W30)
1939 Philo T. Farnsworth sold his television patents to RCA Victor for $1 million.
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.D4)
1971 Mar 11, Philo T. Farnsworth (b.1906), inventor of television, died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later Prof. Donald Godfrey authored "Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television" and Evan I. Schwartz authored "The Last Lone Inventor."
(SFC, 9/7/02, p.D1)(www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/farnsworth.cfm)