1971 Philo T. Farnsworth, age 74 - US television pioneer. Farnsworth first imagined the principles of television during high school and later began researching image transmission at Brigham Young University. In 1927, at the age of twenty-one, he transmitted the first television image – ironically, a dollar sign, which was made up of sixty horizontal lines. He went on to patent 165 devices pertaining to the television, including cathode-ray tubes, amplifiers, vacuum tubes, and electrical scanners Where would all of our mysteries be if it weren't for him.
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