This milestone marks the moment when computing met video, launching the technological lineage that leads from radar displays and early computers to video games, personal computers, smartphones, and modern streaming television.

But the story reaches much further back — from the Antikythera Mechanism and Pascal’s calculator to punch cards, Alan Turing’s code-breaking machines, and ENIAC — all culminating in the breakthrough at MIT that made interactive computing possible.

And at the center of this turning point is an unexpected figure: Philo Farnsworth. The same CRT technology refined for television — beginning with Farnsworth’s 1927 electronic breakthrough — made graphical computing possible. Without television, the modern computer display might never have existed.

From ancient calculating boards to today’s digital screens, this is the story of how television helped create the modern computer — and why every screen on Earth traces back to a chalkboard sketch in 1922.

Countdown to the Centennial: The Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Video.

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to the 100th
• (00:01:31) - The History of Computation
• (00:06:03) - The CRT: Video and Computing
• (00:09:02) - 100 Years of Television

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For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.”  The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. 

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Before 1950, Walt Disney regarded television with the same suspicion as most of Hollywood colleagues: as a threat to their box office, giving away for free what people should be buying tickets for.

But as his studio geared up for the release of its most expensive ever animated feature – Alice In Wonderland – Disney decided it was time to put a cautious toe in the electronic waters of television.  What he discovered was less a threat than a megaphone. 

And when he started to focus on his biggest idea of all, he turned again to television, making a deal with ABC to finance his Disneyland theme park in exchange for a weekly television show – that he used to promote his theme park. 

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• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: The Story of Mickey Mouse
• (00:04:22) - Disney's Disneyland, the TV Show
• (00:13:04) - 100 Years of Television

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When a serious injury put aspiring real estate mogul Jay Ward in bed for several months, he made the obvious career pivot – to producing cartoons for television. 

First he teamed up with childhood friend Alex Anderson to create the first made-for-TV serialized cartoon, Crusader Rabbit  and his sidekick, Rags The Tiger, which began airing in syndication in 1950. 

When they lost control of the characters for financial reasons, Ward and Anderson used the same cartoon DNA to create two of TV's most enduring characters: Rocky and Bullwinkle. 

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• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison's Claims
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: The Crusader Rabbit
• (00:11:39) - 100 Years of Television

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By the time Americans stopped staring at their radios and started gazing at glowing cathode ray tubes, the A.C. Nielsen Company had a near monopoly on the audience ratings business.

The networks turned to Nielsen to justify the premium ad rates they wanted to charge radio advertisers for television.  Nielsen had the infrastructure, so when the networks, sponsors, and Madison Avenue needed him, A.C. Nielsen was already in the catbird seat. 

In the spring of 1950, Nielsen retrofitted its Audimeter technology to detect which channel a TV set was tuned to.  Nielsen added another audience-tracking innovation when they asked their registered households to keep a daily diary of viewer numbers and demographics. The result was a hybrid system that delivered the most reliable television audience data available at the time.

The networks didn’t just adopt A.C. Nielsen – they anointed him. His numbers became holy writ, marking a pivotal moment in the ascent of American television.

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• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: The Ratings
• (00:09:29) - 100 Years of Television

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As a youngster, Isaac Sydney Caesar spent many hours behind the counter at his parents kosher restaurant in Yonkers, New York, carefully observing the patrons multilingual speech patterns.  It wasn't long before he began mimicking their Polish, Russian, Italian, and other European accents and developing the double-talk routines that eventually became central to the act that made Sid Caesar famous. 

That act came to television starting in 1949 with the Admiral Broadway Review – a sketch comedy show designed to sell more televisions for the Admiral Corporation.   

The Review combined Sid Caesar's linguistic acrobatics and explosive energy with Imogene Coca’s rubbery facial comedy, singing, and razor-sharp timing and demonstrated that television comedy could be something more than vaudeville in a box.

The program was so successful that it went off the air after just 19 weeks so that Admiral could divert its ad budget to more manufacturing. 

Less than a year later, NBC began airing Your Show of Shows, the pioneering sketch comedy program that launched dozens of careers and spawned countless imitators.  

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• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Sid Caesar
• (00:10:44) - 100 Years of Television

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When CBS broadcast the premiere of The Goldbergs On February 7, 1949, one of the comedy's's most enduring formats found its way to television 

The Goldbergs was created by Gertrude Berg, who had cut her teeth on the Borsch Belt stages in the Catskills in the 1920s.  Although she had no background in broadcasting, NBC began airing a radio series based on her formative years in the immigrant communities of New York's East Harlem in 1929.  By 1931 the program was a hit from coast to coast. 

When NBC was reluctant to bring her concept to television she joined forces with CBS.  

The Goldbergs was the first program on television centered on a Jewish-American family.  Gertrude Berg not only starred as Molly, she also wrote and produced every episode, becoming a trailblazing role model for generations of women to come. 

With The Goldbergs, Gertrude Berg created the family-based situation comedy or "sitcom."  She helped define the format that shows like I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and All in the Family would refine and expand in the decades that followed. 

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• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown 78
• (00:01:37) - The Rise of the Goldbergs: A Jewish Family

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There are three reasons why the name of Philo T. Farnsworth is not more familiar, despite his having invented what is arguably the most transformative technology of the 20^th Century, if not the entire millennium. 

He was not inclined to dwell on his own past achievements, preferring instead to ponder what he could come up with next;  There were plenty of pretenders to the crown, not the least among them RCA, David Sarnoff and Vladimir Zworykin in the U.S and John Logie Baird in the U.K. 

But mostly, he was not survived by a company that could write the history. 

Countdown #79 looks at the history of Farnsworth Television and Radio - the enterprise that  should have preserved his legacy.  

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to the 100
• (00:01:15) - Philo Farnsworth: The Father of Television
• (00:10:22) - 100 Years of Television

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Irna Phillips was the youngest of ten children born into a large Jewish family in Chicago in 1901.  Her girlhood dreams of becoming an actress were dashed when acting schools rejected her.  Irna may have had a "face for radio," but she had a creative mind suitable for any medium she cared to work in.  

In 1930, Irna was freelancing at Chicago radio station WGN^⁠ when she drew on her own family experience to create Painted Dreams, a 15-minute radio drama featuring an Irish-American widow and her multigenerational household.  

When WGN claimed all the rights to her creation, Irna retooled it for Chicago's NBC affiliate as Today's Children, which started airing in January 1937.  The program found a broad audience among homemakers. When household products manufacturer Proctor and Gamble signed on as the principle sponsor, daily serials aimed at a largely female audience became known as "soap operas." 

When NBC started looking for daytime programming for television, the network gave Phillips the green light on an entirely new program.  These Are My Children began airing daily, live, 15-minute episodes from NBC's flagship Chicago TV station WNBQ at 5PM EST on January 31, 1949. 

Though short-lived, These Are My Children was the first daytime serial created specifically for television,  and the die was cast for one of the medium's most enduring formats.

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• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 100
• (00:01:21) - The Making of Soap Opera Irna Phillips
• (00:12:46) - 100 Years of Television

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Though he is largely forgotten in the public imagination, it is genuinely intriguing how the legacy of Philo T. Farnsworth drifts in and out of the history of television.  Reminders of his inventions can often be found  lingering on the periphery of the industry if you know where to look. . 

Television's annual Emmy Awards is a good example.

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• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: The Academy
• (00:11:41) - 100 Years of Television

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In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs moved the newspaper's headquarters into the newly constructed Times Tower at the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 42^nd Street in Manhattan, which the city renamed "Times Square." 

To celebrate the move the Times sponsored a lavish New Year's celebration.  Some 200,000 New Yorkers packed the square and surrounding streets for music and festivities that were topped off with a brilliant fireworks display.  

When the city banned fireworks in 1907, Ochs commissioned a 700-pound wood-and-iron ball, festooned with one hundred 25-watt light bulbs. At precisely 11:59 PM on December 31, 1907, workers  started to lower the ball from the top of a pole. At midnight the ball went dark and another large electrical sign reading “1908” lit up above Times Square.

In the 1920s and ’30s, Times Square became synonymous with New Year’s Eve. Starting in 1948, the tradition found its way to television. 

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Before Survivor, before The Real World, before all The Real Housewives and The Celebrity Apprentice, there was Allen Funt. 

Allen Funt's concept for a television show was deceptively simple: what would people do if they didn’t know they were being watched by a hidden camera?

From that simple premise On August 10, 1948, Allen Funt brought an entirely new kind of program to the ABC-TV network. Candid Camera was unscripted, unrehearsed, and genuinely real.  Decades later, the genre Funt pioneered would morph into the "everybody knows there are cameras" format now known as "reality" TV. 

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Alan Funt's Candid Camera
• (00:08:24) - 100 Years of Television

Milton Berle was a fairly well known when NBC started migrating much of its radio programming to television.  In the summer of 1948, when Texaco Star Theater began a trial run on television, audience response to Berle was so overwhelming the network made him the permanent emcee when the program started its regular run that fall. 

Berle’s elastic face, flamboyant costumes, and rapid-fire comedy were perfectly suited to the new medium. Television needed a breakout star, and it wasn't long before Milton Berle started calling himself "Mr. Television." 

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Mr. Television
• (00:08:15) - 100 Years of Television

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In 1947 Ed and Grace Parsons, the owners of a radio station in Astoria, Oregon, attended the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago.  

It was Grace who saw her first television set there, and persuaded Ed to purchase one and bring it home to Astoria. 

The only problem was: Astoria is 125 miles from stations in either Seattle or Portland, that were beginning to broadcast TV. 

The solution? Put an antenna on the highest roof in town and distribute the signal via coaxial cable. 

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 100
• (00:07:32) - 100 Years of Television: The Top 100 Milestones

In this week's episode, we meet Martha Rountree, the first woman to host a news and public affairs program on television and the creator of Meet The Press – the longest running program in broadcast history.

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• (00:00:00) - We laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - Meet the Press: 100 Years of Television
• (00:07:27) - 100 Years of Television

On December 27, 1947 a genial thirty-year-old man with wavy dark hair and a broad smile, wearing a fringed cowboy shirt and a bolo tie, looked into a television camera at WNBC Studio 3A in Rockefeller Center and called out,

"Say kids, what time is it?" 

Across the stage, about 40 children between the ages of 4 and 10 responded enthusiastically...

"It's Howdy Doody Time!" 

Children's programming had arrived on television. 

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Howdy Doody
• (00:07:41) - 100 Years of Television

The new show was called Kraft Television Theatre, and represented a turning point for the new medium in two respects.

First, it was live theater, like Broadway on the air. It was not filmed, canned, or recycled from radio. Kraft Television Theater was written and produced for TV, performed live by marquee actors, and broadcast into American living rooms in real time.

I was also American advertising’s  first serious foray into the new realm of television. 

¹ And where, three decades later,  Saturday Night Live would launch another five decades of comedy history.

What makes the event noteworthy is not the fight itself (Louis knocked Conn out in the 8^th round to retain his title) but the camera tube that NBC used for the first time for this particular broadcast: the Image Orthicon. 

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:20) - 100 Years of Television: The Image Orthicon
• (00:07:37) - Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television
• (00:08:58) - 100 Years of Television

Television was deemed ready for the public consumption with the adoption of signal standards in March, 1941 (Countdown #92 – Standards) and made it's first tentative steps toward commercialization with advertising that summer (Countdown #91 – Bulova Time).  

It all came to a screeching halt when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. 

Most histories of television will draw a blank line through World War II, implying that the industry went into suspended animation from 1941 until 1946.  But the race for television going into 1940s fed directly into war effort.  And when the fighting finally ended, the war effort would, in turn, supercharge television's assault on the nation’s airwaves. 

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:20) - 100 Years of Television: The Role Television Played in the War
• (00:12:02) - 100 Years of Television: The Top 100 Milestones

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.”  The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. 

In this week's episode, commercial television finally arrives in the United States on July 1, 1941 with a 10-second ad for Bulova watches broadcast before a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game. 

With the airing of that first Bulova commercial in 1941, let’s back up for a second and revisit the purpose of this project, which is unashamedly dedicated to commemorating the invention of television and recognizing its actual inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth

The merit of Farnsworth’s achievement is a source of endless debate – and often outright dismissal – among the few who care to give the topic any consideration at all.

But the point to all ths is: Farnsworth’s first electronic video transmission on September 7, 1927 – how ever crude it was – was actually some kind of big goddammed deal, and not just another link in a long chain of inventions that led to formal television service in starting 1936 or 1939 or 1941.  

There is sure to be lots of pushback on that assertion from those that still cling to the orthodoxy that 'television was to complex..." to be invented by any single individual.  But a closer examination of the actual record shows that without Farnsworth's contributions, we'd all still be staring at our radios. 

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• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 100
• (00:04:55) - 100 Years of Television

The National Television System Committee (NTSC) was formed in March 1940, and did not deliver a set of standards until March, 1941. 

When the NTSC standards were finally settled, they adopted a standard 20% sharper than what RCA was using, which sent the company back to the drawing boards.

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: The Standards
• (00:08:10) - 100 Years of Television

In Countdown #93, we recount the first live telecasts of America's "National Pastime" in the summer of 1939 – a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. The games were covered by two cameras: one was fixed on the upper deck behind the batter’s box, the other was stationed behind the visiting team’s dugout along the first-base line.

Over the ensuing decades, the revenue generated from television would reshape the economics of not only baseball, but all of America’s major sports. 

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• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: The First Sports Event
• (00:06:46) - 100 Years of Television

Over more than a decade starting in the late 1920s, Sarnoff had spent an estimated $10 million of RCA's profits (that's roughly $240 million in 2025 dollars) on television research.

By 1939, RCA's Board of Directors was starting to question when they might see some sort of payoff from all that investment of time and treasure.

Despite lingering uncertains around the signal standards that would be necessary for an orderly introduction of the new medium, Sarnoff informed his Board that he was going to launch commercial television, and he had the perfect venue in mind: the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:20) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to the Day
• (00:10:05) - 100 Years of Television

 There were no such impediments in the United Kingdom, where John Logie Baird started using the BBC radio airwaves for experimental television transmissions in 1929.

But by 1934, Britain's Marconi-EMI Television was experimenting  with an electronic camera tube called "The Emitron" whch was identical to RCA's "Iconoscope."  

The Emitron spelled the end of John Logie Baird's mechanical "Televisor" (and, in fact, the end of the era of mechanical television that begain in the 1880s). It also meant that the race for television in the U.K. was unfolding along the same lines as it was in the U.S. 

A (colorized) 20 minute documentary of the BBC's entry into television can be found on YouTube: 

https://youtu.be/jhCF8EDc4k8?si=BZkQWI2ymvqOzjXp

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television
• (00:00:57) - The Boy Who Invented Television
• (00:11:25) - 100 Years of Television

His grand designs fell short when two Americans – Jesse Owens and Philo T. Farnsworth - stole the show. 

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 2027
• (00:01:28) - The Birth of Television in Germany
• (00:06:32) - 100 Years of Television

In 1930 – seven years after applying for his patent – Vladimir Zworykin visited Farnsworth's laboratory in San Francisco.  At the time, he was still employed by Westinghouse, and was given a three-day tour of Farnsworth's operations with the understanding that Westinghouse was considering taking a license for Farnsworth's patents. 

When he was handed a freshly-fabricated Image Dissector tube, everybody present heard him say

This is a beautiful instrument.
I wish that I had invented it.

Four years later, RCA tried to make the case that he had.

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
• (00:01:38) - The Farnsworth Patent vs RCA
• (00:08:34) - 100 Years of Television

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - We Should Have Laughed at Edison
• (00:00:21) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to 2027
• (00:01:29) - In the Elevator of Edwin Howard Armstrong
• (00:07:38) - 100 Years of Television

In the 1930s, video technology evolved rapidly in a world-wide race to deliver television to the marketplace.  

In the United States, the principal contestants were the giant Radio Corporation of America and a tiny company spearheaded by the wunderkind inventor from Utah by way of San Francisco, Philo T. Farnsworth. 

RCA had the capital, the technical resources, and the market clout to extend their dominance in all things radio into the nascent new industry of television. 

All Farnsworth had were the fundamental patents for the technology that made television possible 

In the spring of 1934, Farnsworth accepted an invitation from the prestigious Franklin Institute of Philadelphia to conduct the world’s first full-scale public demonstration of television in the summer of 1934.

The arrival of real (electronic) television was announced in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sept 3, 1928 - even as companies like AT&T were getting headlines for their mechanical systems along with independent experimenters like Britain's John Logie Baird.  

But once the news of Philo Farnsworth's invention hit the wire services, the race was on to reap the rewards of bringing a new medium to the marketplace. 

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Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: A countdown to the 100th
• (00:01:46) - The Man Who Invented Television
• (00:12:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to the Centennial

Meet Philo T. Farnsworth, the teenager who had the right idea and the young adult who made it work. 

…While the great minds of science, financed by the biggest companies in the world, wrestled with 19th century answers to a 20th century problem, the summer of 1921 found Philo T. Farnsworth… strapped to a horse-drawn disc-harrow, cultivating a field row by row, turning the soil and dreaming about television to relieve the monotony. 

Long story short: The idea for a fully electronic camera tube occurred to Philo T. Farnsworth in the summer of 1921. In the winter of 1922, he drew a sketch of that idea for his high school science teacher.  In 1926 – after four long years during which he expected to find his idea in the next science magazine he opened – some well-heeled bankers set him up with a grubstake and a loft in San Francisco.  In January 1927, he applied for a patent for his idea and went to work to build a fully electronic television system entirely from scratch. 

On September 7, 1927 he successfully tested the world's first fully electronic television system.

And the rest, as they say, is history - though largely forgotten. 

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: The Story of Philo T. Farn

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Before 1927
• (00:02:02) - The Years That Changed Television
• (00:11:42) - 100 Years of TV

In the last episode, we talked about the evolution of electrical science in the 19^th century and the first advances in modern communications – the telegraph and the telephone – and the first discoveries and inventions around the interaction of light and electromagnetism. 

In this episode we'll look at the first genuine attempts at television, and the advances that preceded Farnsworth's historic breakthrough..

Across the one hundred years, numerous observations, discoveries and inventions brought science to the thresold of "moving pictures that can fly though the air. 

In this episode of 100 Years of Television we dive into the earliest experiements that explored the interactions of light with electricity.

Before we can start the Countdown – and make the case that Philo T. Farnsworth invented television – we need to look back on the discoveries, speculations, false starts, and breakthroughs that finally came to fruition in San Francisco on September 7th, 1927.

This episode of TV100 starts with Aristotle, who observed the phenomenon of "persistence of vision" that was first explore scientifically in 1824 by Peter Mark Roget – the same guy who compiled the thesaurus that bears his name to this day (assuming you can still find one). 

We then follow the subsequent discoveries an inventions that employed the phenomenon first observed by Aristotle to introduce motion pictures in the late 19th century. 

The next episode will delve into the parallel advances in electrical science during roughly the same period. 

You've probably never hear of Philo T. Farnsworth. 

Maybe it's time you did.

We take our screen-based 2st century for granted, but the long-neglected fact is that every video screen on the planet can trace its origins to a sketch that Farnsworth drew for his high school science teacher in 1922 - when he was all of 14 years old. 

On September 7, 1927, Farnsworth conducted the first successful experiment with an all-electronic television system based on the sketch that he'd drawn five years earlier.  That nobody had come up with a similar viable idea – least of the well-financed scientists an engineers of industry who were chasing the same dream – is a testament to how far Farnsworth was "ahead of his time" (actually, Farnsworth was precisely of his time; it's just that most of his contemporaries were still stuck in the 19th century).

The same year that Farnsworth conducted his first successful demonstration of electronic video, he applied for patents for his inventions. Those patents were granted in 1930, and he spent most of that decade fending off challenges to them. By the end of the decade he had compiled a portfolio of more than 100 patents, all of them essential to the new medium when it came out of hibernation after World War II. 

That Farnsworth's name is not more familiar is one of the great oddities of our tech-dominated culture. 

That oversight can be corrected by celebrating the Centennial of Television come September 7, 2027. 

To "countdown" to that date (and raise global awareness along the way), we'll be posting the "Top 100 Milestones from the First 100 Years of Television" here in podcast form and on the web at tvcentennial.com

It's going to be fun journey and we're going to introduce a lot of other intriguing characters along the way.  

Won't you join us?