John Logie Baird invented the world’s first fully functional mechanical television, and Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the ...

Philo T. Farnsworth (middle), the first inventor to demonstrate an electric television, discusses the difficulties of securing patents with his company secretary, George Everson (right), and Richard C ...

Forget the Internet and the cellphone. If you want to think of an amazing advance in technology, travel back to 1929 and the invention of television. In “The Farnsworth Invention,” two ambitious ...

Hair Balls has raved about The Farnsworth Invention at the Alley Theatre, the gripping drama about the invention of television. (Yes, we said “gripping drama about the invention of television.”) Now ...

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The year Sadie Dixon was born, Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity. During her lifetime, the Sedgewickville, Mo. woman has seen the invention of television, the Atomic bomb, Band-aids, ...

From the pioneering black-and-white broadcasts of the 1920s to today’s streaming mega-series, the invention of television changed the world’s entertainment. TV has been a major part of global culture ...

An unidentified man (possibly John Logie Baird) holds Stooky Bill (left) and another ventriloquist’s dummy used in Baird’s first TV transmissions. John Logie Baird made history by transmitting the ...