Philo T. Farnsworth II was born on august 19,1906 in Indian Creek, Utah.
             Philo was the oldest of five children. His parents were Serena Bastain and Lewis
             Edwin Farnsworth. Philo received his name from his grandfather Philo T.
             Farnsworth I. Although early in his childhood he lived with no electricity he was
             entertained bye having conversations with his father about inventions his father
             read about on a magazine. Later on he and his family moved to a farm in
             Idaho, this farm had its own power plant. Eventually Philo mastered the lighting
             system and was put in charge of it. It is said that it never ran smoother
             In 1920 Philo Farnsworth read in a magazine that inventors were
             attempting to transmit visual images bye mechanical means. It was then that
             young Farnsworth proposed that visual images could be transmitted
             electronically. He work for the next to years on developing a method of
             transmitting visual images electronically. Philo was convinced that this would be
             much better than mechanical means. In 1922 he came up with the basic
             design for the apparatus. Philo shared these designs with his high school
             chemistry teacher Justin Tolman. While working as a canvasser Philo became
             friends with a businessman bye the name of George Everson. George Everson
             and Leslie Gorrell invested 6,000 dollars. With additional backing from group of
             bankers Farnsworth was given a research lab in San Francisco and a year to
             prove his concepts. Philo married his wife Elma Pem Gardner on May 27,1926
             the next day he left for San Francisco. On September 7,1927 Farnsworth
             gathered his friends and engineering colleagues and show them the first ever
             transmitted visual image. The image was of Philo Farnsworth's wife and assistant.
             After his success went public RCA became aggressively competitive with Philo
             for control over the television market and challenged the patent for Philo
             television invention. It was ...