"What interested me more was not so much who invented television but what it means" said Eric Samuelsen, BYU associate professor of theater and writer-director of the play. "Whoever invented television changed the world." But let's get some misconceptions out of the way: No, Philo Farnsworth was not from Rigby, nor did he build the first TV there. read more
In 1927, American inventor Philo Farnsworth became the first inventor to transmit a television image comprised of 60 horizontal lines. The image transmitted was a dollar sign. Farnsworth also developed the dissector tube, the basis of all current electronic televisions. He filed for his first television patent (patent #1,773,980) in 1927. read more