The Utah Senate voted 21-7 Monday to advance a bill that would replace a statue of TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth in Washington, D.C., with that of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman state ...

Long before that fateful November day, the television landscape was crowded with inventors competing for the title to the as-yet unproven but promising medium. Despite his eventual defeat, Baird ...

The Senate gave the final legislative approval needed Thursday to send a statue of Martha Hughes Cannon — the nation’s first female state senator — to the U.S. Capitol, replacing one of ...

What in the name of Philo T. Farnsworth? New book traces the battle to invent television June 4, 2002 Posted: 4:36 PM EDT (2036 GMT) ...

Statue of limitations? Legislative debate may pit Philo Farnsworth vs. Martha Hughes Cannon for Statuary Hall.<br> From Elizabeth Jensen’s fifth-grade eyes, the statue — covered by a piece of ...

Philo T. Farnsworth first glimpsed the idea behind television as a 14-year-old farm boy plowing a potato field in Idaho. Surveying the parallel rows of crop and earth, he realized that a larger ...

Philo Taylor Farnsworth is most well known for being the father of the television. How does his family remember him?

When the statue of TV inventor Philo T. Farnsworth is booted from its place in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., later this year, it will be moved to a new home at Utah Valley University, a state ...

Utah lawmaker drafting bill to remove statue of TV inventor Philo Farnsworth from U.S. Capitol Adam Gardiner, R-West Jordan, believes statue of Martha Hughes Cannon, first woman state senator ...

Still, the legacy of Philo and Pem Farnsworth lives on at 200 Green St. As luck would have it, the current occupant of the building's second floor is, yes, a video company.

When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had ...