Comments on: 8 Television Pioneers

By: Tdave

Tdave — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:23:00 +0000

So which guy do I blame for my short attention span and poor muscle tone from sitting, watching sitcoms & infomercials? (haha)

By: stonewar

stonewar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:47:00 +0000

isn’t the clone kid called philo

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:31:00 +0000

Actually Stonewar, The character in Futurama is named Hubert J. Farnsworth, not Philo

By: Yellow SEO

Yellow SEO — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:11:00 +0000

You left out 1928 Tihanyi and his “Radioskop” was awarded patents for his inventions in both France and Great Great Britain.

By: BassMan

BassMan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:33:00 +0000

Philo, loosely translated, means love.

By: Stonewar

Stonewar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0000

strangely when i was learning inventors in 4th grade. We were taught Vladimir Zworykin was the inventor of television along with eli whitney for cotton gin and Howe for sewing machine.

I only knew Philo Farnsworth from Futurama. So I guess dispite winning his case Zworykin gets the name recognition.

By: Harland

Harland — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:45:00 +0000

The interesting thing about Philo (besides being loosely named after really thin dough) is that his ideas came from plowing a field. One side to the other, line on line. Shows you that inspiration is found everywhere.

By: Harland

Harland — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:41:00 +0000

The interesting thing about Philo (besides being named loosely after dough) is his ideas came from plowing the field on a tractor. Back & forth, line on line, just like a TV set.
Goes to show you there is inspiration in everything