Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...
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 conceived a basic principle of television-electronic scansion of an image...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...Inventor Farnsworth had still to prove that his ideas worked. For twelve years he labored in San Francisco and Philadelphia laboratories-watched over by his pretty wife, Pern, who saw to it that he did not forget to eat while building his complex equipment. By 1930 the world of science admitted his theories on television were practical...
...Inventor Farnsworth, who, besides his televisionary accomplishments, is Philadelphia's leading Mormon, will move his laboratory out to Capehart's streamlined plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. The old General Household plant at nearby Marion will be used for manufacturing. With a complete line of radios, phonographs and radio-phonographs, besides Capehart's record-changer patents, Farnsworth Corp. will have something to keep it busy while'television is turning the corner...