Philo Taylor Farnsworth

Philo T. Farnsworth, a pioneer in television, died in March 1971 at the age of 64. He was survived by his widow, Elma (Pem) Gardner Farnsworth, and a son, Philo Farnsworth. Farnsworth conceived the basic features of today's electronic television system in 1921 when he was a high school student.He was born Aug. 19, 1906, in Beaver, Utah. His father died when he had been two years at Brigham Young University and he had to leave school. William H Crocker, a San Francisco banker, staked him to a laboratory that soon became a cave of miracles. Farnsworth served as president and technical director of the ITT Farnsworth Research Corporation and technical consultant to ITT Industrial, Laboratories at Fort Wayne. He retired from these positions in 1967.