TV’s Birthplace

Television did not begin in New York or Los Angeles.  It was the brainchild of a fourteen-year-old farm boy, the vision of a fellow with a funny name:  Philo T. Farnsworth.  Philo was plowing a field on the family farm near Rigby, Idaho, day dreaming about sending pictures through the sky, when he noticed the sun glinting off the parallel lines he had made in the dirt.  In a single, blazing moment of inspiration, it occurred to him that a picture could be broken down into lines, too, beamed into space and then put back together on a television set.