The Machines That Built America: The First Television System Ever Invented 

Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of modern television

Philo Farnsworth revolutionized the world with his all-electronic television, which was the foundation of all TV’s for the next 60 years.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. 

He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. 

Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.