Philo Farnsworth
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government. He also invented a video camera tube and the image dissector. He s
Farnsworth in 1939
Yearbook photo of Farnsworth, 1924
Plaque at the location of Farnsworth's San Francisco laboratory on Green Street.
1943 company advertisement.
Image dissector
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An image dissector, also called a dissector tube, is a video camera tube in which photocathode emissions create an electron image which is then swept up, down and across an anode to produce an electri
Philo Farnsworth
…an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government. He also invented a video camera tube and the image dissector. He sold a fully functioning television system—complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and…
A Farnsworth image dissector tube