Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1927 inventor Philo T. Farnsworth designed and made this television transmission tube that he called an "image ...
He painted a glass square black and scratched a straight line across the center. A slide dropped between a cold cathode-ray tube (called the "Image Dissector") and a hot, carbon-arc lamp. When the ...
Elma Farnsworth, who died Thursday at 97, was the wife and main assistant to Philo Farnsworth, the man generally credited with the invention of television. The invention came in 1927, when Elma, ...