PatentBrief

Inventor

Philo T Farnsworth

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1930

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Years active

1930

Total patents

1

Most recent

1930

Domains

televisionbroadcastingelectronicscommunicationshistory-of-technology

Activity by decade

1930s
1

Patents

1

US 1773980·1930·TELEVISION LAB Inc

Electronic Television — Invented at 21 by a Farm Boy Who Drew It in a Potato Field

Philo Farnsworth's 1930 patent describes the image dissector — the all-electronic camera tube that captured the first fully electronic television image, invented by a 14-year-old Idaho farm boy who conceived it while plowing rows of potatoes.