He did this at the age of 14, in fact, while plowing his family farm and visualizing ... popular consciousness as the primary inventor of television. Before his death from pneumonia in 1971 ...

Farnsworth, had aspired to be an inventor since the age ... for electronic-rather than mechanical-television while driving a horse-drawn harrow at the family’s new farm in Idaho.

One summer day century ago, a crowd packed a second-floor office on Connecticut Avenue near Dupont Circle. The space held the ...

Farnsworth was born in 1906 and grew up working his family’s potato farm; in 1927, he built one of the first working television cameras. For decades, he was widely known as the inventor of ...

There are exceptions: With An American Family, we gain insight into the challenge of being gay man on TV in the 70s through snippets of contemporaneous media and viewer letters. The book also nods ...