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Inventor of electronic television · Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, Fort Wayne
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born 19 August 1906 at Beaver, Utah, and conceived the electronic scanning of images as an Idaho schoolboy in 1921–22. His image dissector transmitted its first image — a straight line — on 7 September 1927 in San Francisco, and in September 1939 RCA settled with him, agreeing to pay royalties of about a million dollars, the first time RCA had paid patent royalties to an outside inventor. The Fort Wayne chapter opened in 1938–39, when his Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation bought the Capehart plant at 3702 East Pontiac Street, and from 1947 the company produced some of the first commercial television sets in Fort Wayne. ITT acquired the firm (1949–51), and Farnsworth worked on in a basement laboratory on Pontiac Street remembered as "the cave"; the company also owned radio station WGL in Fort Wayne. His Fort Wayne home from 1948 to 1967, at 734 East State Boulevard, later housed the Philo T. Farnsworth Television Museum. He died 11 March 1971. The Pontiac Street factory was razed in 2010.
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Sources: Wikipedia, "Philo Farnsworth"; Indiana Historical Bureau, Farnsworth marker review (02.1992.1); Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.