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Philo Farnsworth
Television Pioneer
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American inventor who transmitted the first all-electronic television image in his San Francisco laboratory in 1927, using his image dissector camera tube. Electronic scanning, not spinning discs, is the principle every later television system used, and Farnsworth fought and won a long patent battle with RCA over its paternity.
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Defining ContributionFirst all-electronic television transmission, 1927; the image dissector 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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First all-electronic television transmission, 1927.
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