Main Street in Rigby, Idaho, circa 1920,where Philo T. Farnsworth lived as a teenager when he came up with his conecpt for electric television.
Cover of July 1922 issue of Hugo Gernsback’s Science and Invention magazine, illustrating the future possibilities of televisions, which had not been demonstrated by anyone.
Newspaper clip from San Francisco Chronicle on Sept.3, 1928 which dexcribes Philo T. Farnsworth’s first demonstration of his television invention for the press. (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE)
David Sarnoff, twenty-one, in an RCA publicity photo, in which he is purportedly operating a wireless transmitter in contact with the sinking Titanic in April 1912. In this airbrushed image, Sarnoff’s head appears on someone else’s body.(DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
David Sarnoff (left) arm in arm with Boston financier and friend Joseph P. Kennedy (middle), and an unidentified RCA executive. In 1928, the two men formed a joint venture, RKO Pictures, a movie studio and cinema chain. (DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
David Sarnoff (left) with Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, at RCA’s transmission center on Long Island, in 1933. Marconi’s U.S. patents were the cornerstone of RCA’s monopoly over radio manufacturing in the 1920s and ’30s. (DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
Vladimir Zworykin, RCA’s top television scientist, poses with his Kinescope television receiver tube, in 1929. (DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
David Sarnoff, chairman of NBC as well as president of RCA, sits in his office in Rockefeller Center, showing off the telegraph key built into his desk, 1934. (DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
On April 20, 1939, David Sarnoff introduced television to the public from a makeshift podium at the site of the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. His speech was broadcast over network radio and transmitted to television sets placed in windows and showrooms of New York City department stores. (DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
David Sarnoff with President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the opening of a color broadcasting studio in Washington, 1958. Between them is Sarnoff’s son, Robert, an NBC executive. (DAVID SARNOFF LIBRARY)
In 1957, Philo T. Farnsworth appeared as the mystery guest on the CBS game show, “I’ve Got A Secret.” No one on the celebrity panel could guess who he was. (WWW.FARNOVISION.COM)