TheHistoryofTV
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PHILO FARNSWORTH: the most famous man you never heard of - by Jessica Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth invented television from an idea he had at 14 years old. Yet no one knows his name. His great grand daughter Jessica tries to set the record straight. She gets a little help from her great grandma who was by his side September 7, 1927 for the first TV transmission.
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I've Got A Secret - Philo Farnsworth, Buster Keaton 1957
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The only televised appearance by the inventor of television Philo T. Farnsworth. They couldn't guess who he was, but gave him a carton of Winstons and eighty bucks. Also an appearance by Buster Keaton and Garry Moore
The Most Famous Man You Never Heard Of
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The great grand daughter of Philo T. Farnsworth tells the story of the teenagers who invented television in 1927. Watch this and help Jessica spread the truth about the most famous man you should have heard of.
EYEWITNESS STORY OF TELEVISION
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EYEWITNESS STORY OF TELEVISION
DISAPPEARING FOLD UP TV
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TV commercial for a designer TV from the 1950's. It folded up into a lovely coffee table for those who were too embarrassed to have a television. As I used to say when I produced TV shows, "Life is precious, Television is furniture".
Philo T. Farnsworth - The Birth of Television (1939)
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This rare color film shows television's inventor Philo Farnsworth in his labs in San Francisco & Philadelphia. Made for Popular Science this introduced television to the public. Unfortunately, World War 2 stopped TV development and Farnsworth's factories converted to war related inventions. By the war's end. Farnsworth's patents had expired and his rival RCA took over the marketplace.
The Original Couch Potatoes
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Organized in 1976, the original COUCH POTATOES were a bunch of TV junkies in Dixon California. They would gather together to watch multiple TVs at once, while perfecting the art of junk food ingestion via both the stomach and the eyes. The word has since made the dictionary, but these were the original zanies.
First Betamax - Salesman Training Video 1977
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This is the training tape shown to the salesmen who sold the very first homevideo recorder called The Sony Betamax. It described an entirely new concept in television viewing. At that time it was one giant unit including the recorder and trinitron television. Betamax lost the format wars to VHS and has disappeared into time.
RCA Victor 7 Function Remote Control Television Film 1961
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First 7 Function "Wireless Wizard" Remote Control. Demo film from 1961. The first Zenith operated by light, The RCA used sound waves. This device forever freed children from the task of "Get up and change the channel for me".
"Television" 1949 An RCA Presentation
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The story of television as told by RCA. Wonderful early footage on the invention of broadcasting.
PHILO FARNSWORTH "SMALL SCREEN, BIG DREAMS" part 1
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Philo T. Farnsworth came up with the original idea for electronic television when he was 14. Although he did not share in the fortunes made on his invention, his is a story of true American Ingenuity. He was one of our unsung geniuses. Here is his story in two parts from an old PBS doc.
PHILO FARNSWORTH "SMALL SCREEN, BIG DREAMS" part 2
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Philo T. Farnsworth came up with the original idea for electronic television when he was 14. his is a story of true American Ingenuity. He invented a thousand things and was one of our unsung geniuses. Here in part two from an old PBS documentary, he wins his patent war against RCA, but ironically does not share in the fortunes made on his invention.
TV about TV
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TV about TV
Philco Safari First Portable Battery Operated Television 1958
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This is a commerical for the Philco Safari the world's first portable battery operated television 1958.
RCA Victor - Silverama Portable Flying TV Ad
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TV commercial for the RCA Victor Portable. So light-weight, it flys! 1957
Philco Predicta Decorator Commercial
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Philco Predicta Decorator Commercial
Philco Predicta Tandem 1959
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Philco Predicta Tandem 1959
Philco Predicta - TV Today from the World of Tomorrow
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Philco Predicta - TV Today from the World of Tomorrow
Very First Betamax Home Video Recorder Promo 1977
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Very First Betamax Home Video Recorder Promo 1977
Bob Hope and Neil Armstrong
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Bob Hope and Neil Armstrong

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @JohnDoe_Poland
    @JohnDoe_Poland 2 дні тому

    This show is great. Watching this many decades after it was taken off the air feels strange. Passage of time is a weird feeling

  • @kelwinkwel
    @kelwinkwel 24 дні тому

    I never knew I was apart of this group 🫡😇

  • @banksuvladimir
    @banksuvladimir Місяць тому

    Weird that they say “in the history of television” when the history of television, at least on any real significant level, was like 10-15 years by that point

  • @brmagyaros
    @brmagyaros Місяць тому

    I bought one today and hooked up a converter box. Works great! Watching TV on a 1959 TV mini projector screen. Wild!

  • @summersky77
    @summersky77 Місяць тому

    It's the ugliest background set I've ever seen, even for the 70s. WTF were they on and holy shit, is it ever distracting. That's all I got from this video. 🫤

  • @Not-A-Space-Agency
    @Not-A-Space-Agency Місяць тому

    John F. Kennedy would have preferred NASA was honest and admitted missing the goal to "go to the Moon in this decade", than to fake it. The first step in solving a problem is realizing there is one... # Simple, Case- closed endgame😂🙃🤪🤐🤫🤥🤤🥴

  • @markriding1267
    @markriding1267 2 місяці тому

    Two great actors 😂

  • @ST0RMSHAD0W_117
    @ST0RMSHAD0W_117 2 місяці тому

    Bruh my dumbass almost thought this shit was Bluetooth back then Till I did more research and the screen connects via a long ass cable

  • @alejandropirela3921
    @alejandropirela3921 2 місяці тому

    Thanks for sharing Its a great stuff from another time

  • @kurt4528
    @kurt4528 2 місяці тому

    Its trivia time.. .. Q. Who invented the vhs format.

  • @user-zp5oq8ix4c
    @user-zp5oq8ix4c 2 місяці тому

    Attendance for Sony Management experience Mon April 15, 2024 16:21 Devin Joshua Schneider

  • @Thomas-yr9ln
    @Thomas-yr9ln 2 місяці тому

    It was never as good as other TVs because the picture tube had a short gun on the back of it giving it poorer resolution.

  • @valeriedavidson2785
    @valeriedavidson2785 2 місяці тому

    Farnsworth is not considered the inventor of tv and the U.S. did not have the first service. That credit goes to John Logie Baird from Britain and the first regular tv service was from London in 1936.

  • @jorgezarco9269
    @jorgezarco9269 2 місяці тому

    The TV was the "electronic babysitter" in 1980's culture.

  • @jorgezarco9269
    @jorgezarco9269 2 місяці тому

    Philo T. Farnsworth invented a TV prototype in 1927 so Elvis Presley could shoot it! I am kidding. Farmers work better with Gustav Holst music.

  • @hurricanefury439
    @hurricanefury439 3 місяці тому

    Imagine if they started making replicas of these with newer more modern tech

  • @hedgecat4310
    @hedgecat4310 3 місяці тому

    Thunderbirds was more believable and a better story.

  • @babylon333
    @babylon333 3 місяці тому

    Nice Mason hand

  • @marlberg2963
    @marlberg2963 3 місяці тому

    I note with a smile that none of the snakes were venomous 😮

  • @TheAllSeeingEye2468
    @TheAllSeeingEye2468 4 місяці тому

    How far we come

  • @alkanstvdxing
    @alkanstvdxing 4 місяці тому

    take my money

    • @tony--james
      @tony--james 3 місяці тому

      in 1975-77, this thing (Sony Color TV/Betamax Console LV-1901) had a staggering price tag of $2,495

  • @Adidasfighter2006
    @Adidasfighter2006 4 місяці тому

    First: You see it in NTSC 520 Horicontal Lines max. and VHS can not do this in the next Years! Only when it comes with SVHS, but at this Time, Sony comes with Super Betamax with more Lines....Second: Only with Betamax, you can go from Play to Ffwd and return to play and you see the Picture. On VHS you must wait many seconds before you can see the Picture, when you go to Play...

  • @susanroche597
    @susanroche597 4 місяці тому

    Bruh let me get one

  • @user-id5er4hz8d
    @user-id5er4hz8d 4 місяці тому

    The way they get to the roleplay is weirdly sexual.

  • @mph1ish
    @mph1ish 4 місяці тому

    “There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known." Luke 12:2

  • @sandybruce9092
    @sandybruce9092 4 місяці тому

    I haven’t seen a cigarette commercial since I was a small kid! Forgot how 🤮🤮🤮 they were!

  • @44032
    @44032 5 місяців тому

    I wonder if Philo envisioned a TV show with a man with 9 live snakes in his pockets and a pie eating contest.

  • @alanosterman7130
    @alanosterman7130 5 місяців тому

    The more I learn about David Sarnoff, the more I really dislike him as a human being.

  • @PRR_T1
    @PRR_T1 6 місяців тому

    It saddens me to think that nearly a decade of work, billions of dollars, and the help of hundreds of thousands of people to put Neil and Buzz on the Moon for a group of people to say “that’s fake”

  • @jamesm90
    @jamesm90 6 місяців тому

    Up tp 60 minutes on a cassette! Yep thats why betamax lost to vhs the cassettes were too small for long recordings. Beta II was ok but still not as long as VHS.

    • @FredJensen4745
      @FredJensen4745 4 місяці тому

      Also Sony was really stingy with licensing the patents!

  • @worthington5687
    @worthington5687 6 місяців тому

    Back in 2006 , I saw Elma''s obituary and posted a link in Usenet, a poster named bmoag graciously replied: -------------------------------------------------- "I had no idea Mrs. Farnsworth only recently passed away. Farnsworth was like the Wright Brothers: an auto-didact light years ahead of everyone else on the planet in terms of his technical insights and creativity. Charmingly, he always credited his wife as co-inventor. His achievements in developing electronic television are every bit as epochal as the first Wright brothers flight at Kittyhawk. It is astounding that Farnsworth is not as well known to the general public as other great innovators: the computer monitor screen that you may be reading this message on, CRT or LCD, exists because of Philo T. Farnsworth" . -bmoag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today above my electronics workbench I keep a photo of Philo with his inspirational teacher Mr. Justin Tolman.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 7 місяців тому

    "With sports-car styling!" Not sure I see a resemblance, but OK.

  • @erroneous3493
    @erroneous3493 7 місяців тому

    I wanna play fallout on it

  • @KellyNorman-wu6qr
    @KellyNorman-wu6qr 7 місяців тому

    Wow if he could see TV today he might be impressed

    • @sandybruce9092
      @sandybruce9092 4 місяці тому

      I doubt Mr. fsrnsworth would be surprised - he said it would happen!!

  • @blakeharrison3972
    @blakeharrison3972 7 місяців тому

    I wish I lived in the 70’s

  • @rongendron8705
    @rongendron8705 7 місяців тому

    I'm 77 & remember seeing this episode in 1957! Looking at Philo Farnsworth's life, I feel that he was cheated out of receiving the multi-millions of dollars in revenue, from his invention of electronic television! He should have died a billionaire! /"I've Got a Secret" was always entertaining, but this show was one of the best! p.s. I have actually seen live, both Bill Cullen ( when I was in the audience,1962, of "The Price is Right") & Henry Morgan, 1967, when I met him at a Manhattan Cigar, cigarette store!

  • @devilmario666
    @devilmario666 8 місяців тому

    Fantastyczne Cudo ❤👍💪

  • @ShibaCat
    @ShibaCat 8 місяців тому

    i come here because just watch VHS85

  • @annhutcheson5770
    @annhutcheson5770 8 місяців тому

    *Any doubt whatsoever that Big Tobacco owned early television? They don’t call it programming for nothing.*

  • @woodstock69girl55
    @woodstock69girl55 8 місяців тому

    Remember before you leave our store make sure you stock up on some spare drive belts,you'll need them in a few years.

  • @rococoblue
    @rococoblue 8 місяців тому

    👍 he was a good man.

  • @edkienzler406
    @edkienzler406 9 місяців тому

    I named a ventriloquist puppet Farnsworth…and unfortunately I really hate tv it as it now…

  • @BeingRomans829ed
    @BeingRomans829ed 9 місяців тому

    Interesting that a man from a country that claims all capitalists are evil monsters that destroy human beings for power and profit produced one of the worst monsters ever to abuse capitalism. Sarnoff was indeed a monster. His dirty low-down dealings with Farnsworth and Edwin Armstrong were atrocious, to say the least.

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 10 місяців тому

    "Trinitron" is such a startrek "futuristic" sounding name 😂

  • @floeki-jekker
    @floeki-jekker 10 місяців тому

    geweldig ! de future in de toekomst.

  • @allenrichards5086
    @allenrichards5086 10 місяців тому

    Thanks for making this, cousin! I am not completely certain of our relation, you and I, other than Philo Taylor Farnsworth is my first cousin 3 generations removed. I am descended through Samuel Taylor Farnsworth. Great video!

  • @Barzins1
    @Barzins1 10 місяців тому

    A real American hero. He never caused a scandal and he always tried to represent the best of America. Much respect to you sir.

  • @pikeman80
    @pikeman80 11 місяців тому

    What? No Garter Snakes or Red Bellied Snakes?

  • @david_4246
    @david_4246 11 місяців тому

    Wtf he learned all this from stacks of science magazines?

  • @jamesslick4790
    @jamesslick4790 11 місяців тому

    1:56 The much later Kodak 8mm Brownie movie camera (1950s), sure took a lot of inspiration from the 1939 Farnsworth TV camera!