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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906, Beaver, Utah, United States – March 11, 1971, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States) was an American inventor and pioneer of telecommunications. He is best known for inventing the world’s first fully electronic television system and is therefore regarded as one of the “fathers of television.” Throughout his life, he obtained more than 300 U.S. and foreign patents for electronic and mechanical devices. Early Life and Education Philo Taylor Farnsworth was bo

Kalman Tihanyi, a Hungarian physicist and engineer born in 1897, played a key role in the development of modern television, one of the technological achievements of the 20th century. He is best known for designing the technology known as the "storage principle," which made the technical realization and industrial mass production of television possible. Early Life and Education Kalman Tihanyi was born on 28 April 1897 in Újbuda, then part of the Nyitra Region of Austria-Hungary (today in Slovakia