Word: farnsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week no one announced wide-scale television for next week, next month or next year. In Manhattan, however, lean young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, one of the two top U. S. televisors, announced to the Institute of Radio Engineers a new cold-cathode amplifier which he believed would be immensely useful to radio in general, to television in particular. Mr. Farnsworth, who despite his flair for electronics has learned to talk like a tycoon, calls his new tube the multipactor. Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament. The multipactor takes advantage of the fact that...
Television has had one of the oddest histories of any human enterprise. An established technological fact, mainly accomplished by U. S. research, it refuses in the U. S. to emerge from the laboratory. With either the Zworykin iconoscope (RCA-Victor) or the Farnsworth cold-cathode dissector tube "high-definition" images equal in clarity to home cinema and 6 by 8 inches in size can be transmitted. Blond, young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who rose from obscurity with the help of San Francisco bankers, has leased his system to England and Germany where broadcasting is in government hands. Currently television is regularly...
...Jerry Farnsworth, able Cape Cod portraitist, whose Jan de Groot took the $150 Thomas R. Proctor Prize for the best portrait in the show...
Died. Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, 46, banker, sportsman, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp., onetime board chairman of Madison Square Garden Corp.; following an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A partner in Hayden, Stone & Co., in 1929 he helped merge twelve aviation companies in Curtiss-WTright Corp...
...yard free style swim--Won by Farnsworth (M); second, Johnson (M); third, Donald N. McKay '38 (H). Time--24.6 seconds. (Breaks Harvard Freshman record...