Thursday, May 20, 2021

a home town hero

 

Today I heard an interesting lecture on Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television.  I understand there is some debate about did he or didn't he, but he did have the first patent on the system that made TV, as we have it today, possible, and actually developed the idea before he was twenty.  Farnsworth lived, and had two factories, in Fort Wayne in his later years.  A little later he worked for ITT here in town, which is why my husband, who also worked there (not at the same time) was always so interested in him, and how I first heard of him.  The house he and his family lived in is on East State Street, surrounded by a white picket fence so it's easy to identify.  When I was selling real estate, if I happened to be driving a client along State Street, I would point out the home of Philo Farnsworth.  I always got one of two responses. Either "Who?" or "Oh yes, the inventor of television."  

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