In 1922 a 14yearold farm boy first sketched his idea for television for his science teacher. The boys name was Philo T. Farnsworth and he knew very little about electronic theory. Three years earlier his family had moved to a farm in Idaho. The farm had electricity. Philo became fascinated with it and one day when his father and several adults were puzzling over why their farm generator had stopped, Philo surprised everyone by stepping in and repairing the generator. Philo loved to experiment by building electric motors in an attic loft that soon became his own inventors lab. One night in the dead of winter Philo read an article about the possibility of combining radio and motion pictures and transmitting this new media instantly into homes just as radio was now doing. He had read science fiction accounts that used spinning mirrors, but they didnt seem to be fast enough to capture the light of a moving image. Philo pondered the problem for months and in a moment had an inspiration why not capture light in a jar and transmit it in a series of individual lines of electron beams. You could magnetically deflect each line one at a time so that together they would form a moving picture.

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