WASHINGTON — NASA Television has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The 2009 Philo T. Farnsworth Award recognizes the agency for engineering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wren Bouwman and Doug Fiore will play Pem and Philo Farnsworth in ACTORS's upcoming production of "The Farnsworth Invention." For ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - “The Farnsworth Invention” is a fictionalized account about the true story of inventor of the television, Philo Farnsworth. A young self-taught genius from Idaho driven by a ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Philo T. Farnsworth is hiding in plain sight wherever you look. He is unseen yet impossible to miss. Unknowingly, the average American home affirms Farnsworth eight hours each day.

In London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London.

I’m curious to finally see how Aaron Sorkin will handle the Birth of a Television saga on stage in his play “The Farnsworth Invention,” which is set to begin its previews at Broadway’s Music Box ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth, who helped her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, develop the television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV, has died at age ...

When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a ...