Am I the only one noticing that in the last two minutes of this clip, The REAL Dr. Farnsworth makes these predictions for the future: HDTV's, Flat Screen TV's, Digital Video Cameras, DVR's, and Fusion Power?! Is this for real?

@rayk9160

4 ай бұрын

Exactly! Even the basis for video compression when he mentions parts of scenes that can be stored in memory.

@deeparks472

15 күн бұрын

One of his friends was Einstein

Right at the end, He's says he's working on making TV's with an excess of 2000 lines. That's HDTV. Also he says he's trying to make just a screen with the picture pasted on, that's a flatscreen. And then, as if that wasn't enough, he just casually drops the seed for digital cameras. This man was amazing! -Jacob

@jimsteele9261

6 жыл бұрын

MPEG compression too. ahead of hi time for sure!

@thomaspiccirillo6820

5 жыл бұрын

TY JACOB UR BRILLIANT

@jorgejohnson875

3 жыл бұрын

@@APerson-dq4hl time traveler

@jsclar

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Jacob -jacob

@Stcroiss

3 жыл бұрын

@@jsclar lol hi jacob

Philo was the real deal. We need to remember these men who still can inspire youth to solve problems today.

Ironically, this was the only time he ever appeared on television.

A mild mannered, self-effacing man, yet possessed of an extraordinary intelligence. After looking at pictures of his happy family it seems that Farnsworth enjoyed what all great geniuses need most, a sense of humor and the warm support of one's peers. Imagine what would have been possible if Tesla had such similar luck.

Where he's talking about electronic "memory file".... That's how digital TV file compression works. The TV holds the image til it gets new information and the screen pixel changes. (DVDs and Blu-rays work similarly) Truly a remarkable visionary!

@pigs18

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he's literally describing a frame buffer, nearly fifty years before it came to be.

@ordinaryk

4 ай бұрын

Farnsworth was developing technology based on components that hadn't been invented yet, on the assumption that they would be in the near future, and sure enough, the integrated circuit (aka the microchip) was invented in 1959, along with chip-based memory in 1970. LCD flat panel screens first showed up in the 1980s. Experimental digital broadcasting began in the 80s, and finally around 2000, the transition to digital TV began, over 4 decades after Farnsworth's appearance on I've Got a Secret.

@Iconoclasher

4 ай бұрын

@@ordinaryk Thanks for the update and clarification. 😊

For all the mixed blessings television has brought us, this man is a true American genius. We have seen the moon landing, the horrors of Vietnam and countries rise and fall from the comfort of our own living rooms. The 20th century was witnessed and shaped because of his invention and we all need to remember his name. In True Awe. GREAT VIDEO!

Holy shit, this guy was waaaaay ahead of his time. It’s almost eerie how prophetic his words were. Incredible.

im 12 years old and i think they should keep making tv shows like this one i can believe i actually like these shows and i was born in the 21 century

One of the coolest people ever. His idea for lines of resolution, which solved a thorny problem in TV's development, derived from observing the rows of corn planted on the farms near his boyhood home. How's that for imaginative transposition?

I thought John Logie Baird was a legend ....and then i read the book "The last lone inventor" about Farnsworth. Ladies and Gents, this man is one of the greatest inventors and scientists in modern times comparable to Einstein, Edison and others. The story of his struggle and "theft" of his inventions and patents leaves you in wonder at his persistance. A great american. (Coming from an Aussie!)

66 years later and I'm watching this on a wireless 1440p 5.8 inch screen that fits in my pocket. Just imagine what will be possible 66 years from now.

This man should be remembered just as well as Edison.

@thomaspiccirillo6820

5 жыл бұрын

SamKhan95 TOUCHÉ SAM ABSO DEFINITELY

@deuxpomme9777

5 жыл бұрын

Edison was a bad person

@mochroisierra6719

4 жыл бұрын

Nikola Tesla instead

@bobdole27

2 жыл бұрын

He got screwed over by Sarnoff and the RCA, just all the true revolutionaries at the time like Tesla, and Alexanderson

@SemenTheSailor

2 жыл бұрын

No Edison was a terrible bastard who took credit for others work. Like others said Nikola Tesla would be more accurate. In reality he’s neither, he’s Farsnworth, and that name should be remembered. He shouldn’t be the “Edison of TV” he has created his own waves, he’s Dr Farsnworth.

Now there is what I call a brilliant man

Your great great uncle is one of the world's most underrated geniuses, and the respect and recognition he deserves is long overdue.

@Salicath1

3 жыл бұрын

Philip J. Fry

That's basically true. The quality of television was constrained in the 1940s and 50s due the need to arrive at achievable standards and tet it into the marketplace. By then, Farnsworth had developed a camera tube he called the "Iatron" that was capable of 1000+ lines of resolution. Took another 50+ years to get that in the living room.

I can honestly say I had no idea who invented TV. You learn something new every day! Thanks for the education!!!

The 50's were something else. You win a carton of Winstons and a small wad of cash immediately. lol

@krzy_art_snob

2 жыл бұрын

that was before commies infiltrated !

90 percent of the comments here are claiming to be relatives of Farnsworth. Well, he was from Utah where everyone is related to everyone.

I think my great-grandfather is one of the most remarkable and humble men of the 20th century. His humility may be the very reason we don't hear his name around the house. He dreamed to invent, and that's what he did.

@UnshallowPodcast

9 жыл бұрын

He definitely was born with a gift and had a vision. HDTV's would probably be about 40 years old by now if he had his way...

@mariomaradiaga2039

9 жыл бұрын

Jessica Moulton Are you family related to Dr. Farnsworth? Wow! cool!

@vanshikabhatnagar3739

7 жыл бұрын

He was one of the great men of the 20th century. You should be very proud.

@morganfarnsworth3962

6 жыл бұрын

Jessica Moulton I'm related to Dr.Farnsworth my name is Morgan Farnsworth

@thomaspiccirillo6820

5 жыл бұрын

JESSICA UR GRANDPA IS THE IDOL OF MY FAMILY SOO UNDERAPPRECIATED MY DAD WAS A VIDEO ENGINEER AT ABC WHO OWED HIS LIVELIHOOD TO MR. F. OUR LIVES REVOLVE AROUND HIS GENIUS MY DAD DIED YOUNG BUT ALWAYS GAVE THE GREAT DR. HIS DUE. THANK YOU AND UR FAMILY PLS TELL UR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS TY AND THAT MY DAD WORKED ON THE ORIGINAL DARK SHADOWS

That man was a genius, creating a revolutionary invention like the TV, and when he was 14. I tip my hat to you Farnsworth.

@mnfowler1

6 жыл бұрын

I love the story about how he came up with the basic idea for transmitting the analog TV signal. He was plowing his uncle's potato field near Rigby, ID, and thinking about one of the biggest problems: if you turn an image into electrons and send them through the air, how do you avoid them ending up just a jumble of electrons? Then he looked behind at the field he had been plowing, working along one row, then turning around and going in the opposite direction to plow the next row. Then it hit him. The answer is simple. You scan the image, turning it into rows of electrons, the end of one row connecting to the end of the next row, right to left, then left to right, until you have turned the whole picture into a number of connected rows of electrons. Now you have a single-file stream of electrons that can be sent and received by a receiver (the TV set), which is programmed to arrange each electron on its screen in the same order it was originally scanned. Fourteen years old. Brilliant!

Thanks for posting this. It's a sad truth that most of the greatest minds in physics have been forgotten, even in their own time.

These are the men who made our lives better men who use their minds to create what we take for granted today, those are the people we should remember, admire & honor.

Lol, "Hey thanks for inventing the television and congrats on winning, here's a carton of Winston's, $60, and a firm handshake." Game shows were wild back then.

@tconlon251

3 жыл бұрын

$560 today

I just saw "The Farnsworth Invention" last night on Broadway. Wow! What a show. And what a shame that his credibility was stolen. And now to see this old clip of the real Philo... (loss of words)

Truth is that few inventions in history have been down to a single person, whether TV, flight, light bulbs or anything else. A number of people are likely to come up with an idea around the same time and work pretty-much in parallel. Then it's down to who perfects it first.

I bought in 1997 a VHS video called Big Dream Small Screen (you can Google it) a PBS show about Farnsworth. A great book is The Last Lone Inventor. Thanks for sharing this clip driver-49. I saw part of this years ago on Nicklleodian and I have been hoping to catch it again, watchng Nickleodian over and over. I'm a Broadcast Engineer and Philo fan, and it amazes me how he talks about better use of the 6Mhz bandwidth, flat screens, memory files and 2000 line resolution. Philo is a Phenomenon.

I read about Farnsworth and this TV appearance but never actually saw it; thanks for uploading! Most inventors simply recombine what has already been done, using existing technology to make incremental steps, but this guy had to invent an almost entirely new technology from the ground up just like the Wright brothers had to design and build their own engine to get their plane flying. This guy was a true genius.

This show was brilliant. To have a surviving eyewitness to the assassination of President Licoln and saw John Wilkes Booth try escape breaking his leg to Philo Farnsworth! I do wonder what Mr. Farnsworth would think of "Real Housewives" however.

@mnfowler1

6 жыл бұрын

On the excerpt from "Secret" here he says he thinks TV is positive, but then the host says that in private before the show he hedged about that. I read that privately Farnsworth thought that the content on TV was disappointing and even unwatchable. On the other hand, his widow said that when they were watching the Moon landing together, he turned to her and said, "This makes it all worthwhile."

The sad and incredibly tragic fact is that this is Dr. Farnsworth's one and only appearance on television...which he invented! And for stumping the panel, he got $80 and a carton of Winston cigarettes!

I love you Dr. Farnsworth, thank you for the TV!

Thank you for posting this awesome part of American and world history on KZread! It's not very often we get to see a blast from the past quite like this! God bless you!

6:45 He was talking about digital compression, MANY years before it was brought about... Smart guy..!

Interesting man Farnsworth. Also interesting that he was a Mormon and they gave him a carton of Winston cigarettes at the end of the show:)

i am doing a research project about philo farnsworth and i just found that he invented TV at 14 and thats awesome because he was so young!

In probably 1960 Gotta Secret had on a very old man who supposedly was the last surviving person who was in Fords' Theatre the night Lincoln was shot. He was maybe 4 years old then and didn't remember much except a lot of commotion. I keep hoping that a video of the Secret episode still exists somewhere.

You could make a case for either of them. Both made contributions, independently, to the development of electronic television. Tihanyi contributed to a system that was first to be developed commercially, but Farmsworth's system is generally cited as the direct ancestor of modern electronic television using the scan lines and deflection yoke system. Vladimir Zworykin has also been called the "father of electronic television." It seems they all developed similar ideas independently.

Brilliant and humble man. Now HDTV, DVR, and more.👏

Electronic TV using a CRT at the receiver only was proposed by Rosing in Russia in 1907and a system using a CRT for the camera and receiver first proposed on paper by British engineer Campbell-Swinton in 1911. Baird was first to get half tone pictures, 1923, using a mechanical system, and Farnsworth was first with a working electronic camera. First public service was in the UK using Zworykin's camera.

what a FANTASTIC historical find!!! THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!!

I totally loved this clip! Thank you for sharing it with the world.

I am related to Philo Farnsworth :) hes my Great, Great, Great uncle

Thank you, Farnsworth.. thank you so much

His wife lived the same time as the TV show Futurama existed, which had Professor Farnsworth on it. I want to know if she ever saw it, and what she thought of it if she did.

That's the only "IGAS" segment I've got... I collect Farno stuff. Thanks for tuning in!

I for one really enjoy your videos. It is a horrible shame they are making you take them down. Tv networks is my FAVORITE channel on you tube. If this channel goes down so does my you tube membership.

What an incredibly interesting man. Thank you for posting this!

Farnsworth's deep nasal voice is awesome! :)

I love this clip sooooo much!

Interesting piece of history. On another note, this video was uploaded over 13 years ago, that’s practically ancient!

@paulschatzkin9463

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been on the Internet since 1993

@driver49

3 жыл бұрын

@@williammanning2938 Hello Reddit... did somebody post something on Reddit about this video? Cuz I've gotten more traffic / comments on this post in the past 12 hours or so than I've gotten in the past 12 years... can you post a link for me so I can track the discussion, maybe chime in?

@jacobmartin3269

3 жыл бұрын

@@driver49 www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/hh3qya/til_that_even_though_philo_farnsworth_the/fw7u9df?context=3

@JonathanHam552

3 жыл бұрын

@@driver49 here's the link www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/hh3qya/til_that_even_though_philo_farnsworth_the/

This video should have 10,000,000,000,000 views and 10,000,000,000,000 thumbs-ups.

@driver49

2 жыл бұрын

Heh. When I published my book (see link), the log line was "A must read for anybody who watches television." Suffice it to say we've fallen a tad shy of that goal.🤪

He won the $80 and the cigarettes because that was the top prize on I've Got a Secret. They were by no means giving him less money than he deserved. They played by the rules of the show.

That was so cool. Thanks for putting it on KZread!

Baird's system was mechanical. Farnsworth's system was electronic. Note that he said he invented "electronic television".

@moproducer you got that right. they also stuck it to Armstrong, the fella who invented FM Radio and Short Wave and other things. Armstrong spent years fighting RCA and Sarnoff over patent rights.

This was a great show!

You can practically hear their eyes glazing over when he starts talking about technical matters. What a bunch of rubes.

@gongzo25670

3 жыл бұрын

They're not really "computer people" I'm guessing. Get it? Because they're old so they're probably still like that.

@Yaoming19981998

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, from reddit?

@scwt89

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yaoming19981998 le narwhal bacons at midnight

Thanks for this Farnsworth clip... most amazing to see the man in person. Do you have any other clips where he talks about his Fusor device?!

I have many dozens of IGAS episodes and don't have this one! Thanks very much. If you have more and want to trade...lemme know. You're awesome for posting this!

Great man.

apenas ahora me entero de quién es el inventor de mi mejor entretenimiento , y me ha conmovido su historia y como este genio y desde ahora ídolo y referente para mí no recibió el mérito , reconocimiento o como se quiera decir , por su aporte a la humanidad , desde hoy triste con esta revelación pero feliz de saber nombrar desde ahora el real y auténtico creador del invento mas divertido de la historia , y desde acá ... hoy ... le envío hasta donde quiera que su alma esté , un abrazo y un pedazo de mi corazón a usted señor Philo ""

"Thnx Driver & NPR" NPR? Did NPR say something about Philo Farnsworth today? It is the 80th anniversary of his first successful transmission, maybe they picked up on that?

That's the thing that so many people don't understand about Farnsworth: that what came up with was out of "whole cloth." I still get e-mails from people who say John Logie Baird invented television -- talk about recombining things! And of course, the RCA apologists who insist Zworykin was first, despite the lack of any meaningful evidence. But "triggeron" has gotten very much to the heart of the matter. Thanks. --PS

"We're hoping to make television where the display is just the screen." LCD. "We're hoping that we can add memory and just paste the picture there." E-Ink. "2000 lines instead of 525, in a smaller channel." Well, HDTV is 1080 lines in a much smaller channel. Not quite 2000 yet although they are working on it -- although "they" is the Japanese, not the US, sadly. Also, I was surprised he didn't mention color television!

@SaveTheCroissants: Well, HDTV is 1080 lines. Though usually its actually only 720...!

I just returned from the new play on Broadway - The Farnsworth Invention. What a story. He truly was ripped off by RCA and David Sarnoff. After reading about him on Wiki., it does sound like his life was not as sad and desperate as portrayed in the show. I was glad to read that.

Btw, a good way to remember his name is to think of Futurama. The main character is PHIL Frye, and his great nephew is Dr. Farnsworth.

Wow, I want a 2008 FusionGT!

No, that's the only video I know of where he talks about fusion, and that's like 2 years before he even started building a fusor. I think he had the basic idea as early as 1953, though I'd have to check the dates, and he spent like six years checking the math. When I first met the Farnsworth family in 1975, they had sd half-inch video of an interview with Farnsworth, never saw that footage, nor do I have any idea what became of the original tape. --PS

Yes, He was a man way ahead of his time.

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@gannetripple: Farnsworth invented the system that was put into commercial production. It is made clear that Farnsworth invented "all electronic television". The mechanical system was never adopted for commercial or mass production use.

No one person invgented Television. It was the result of several engineers Farnswort included. Ferdinand Braun the CRT Kinescope, Manfred von Ardenneg wideband amplifiers Flyingspot Scanners, Paul Nipkov, JL Baird. and last but not least Vladimir Zworykin Who invented the Ikonoscope. Later onTelefunkens Walter Bruch (Pal Color TV.

@rivieragrill7282

8 жыл бұрын

+Graham Pinkerton I think it's correct to point out that he specified the facs that he invented ELECTRONIC TELEVISION.

@genesisrivera9322

7 жыл бұрын

Graham Pinkerton he did invent TV thats why he is so famous and important in history.

Philo T. Farnsworth -- the Godfather of Television

Dude won some ciggys!!

Sadly GSN won't air any episodes sponsored by Winston Cigarettes (which is a hefty portion of this show) so we won't see this episode on there. Thanks for posting this as IGAS was a great panel show along with WML and TTTT.

@madc2004

3 жыл бұрын

Why not just censor it? Or show it late at night? Be a lot better than not showing it at all

i love this genius

Ask three people, heck, 30 people who invented the TV. I bet not many will know the name Philo T. Farnsworth. Well except for the character on Futurama.

brilliant vissionary

What happened to his fusion research? (If any?)

His claim is not that he invented the first TV. Mechanical TV was done before his system. His contribution was his electronic "disector" that was the first electronic camera. He only claimed to have invented the first all-electronic TV system.

@Teflon65 me too, even the advertisements seem very similar (though they might have all been)

Nice.

@lungbrown yes the man was a genius!

As far as I know, this is Farnsworth's first and only television appearance.

Re: Rosing and Campbell-Swinton: neither could make it work. Having the right idea is one thing; having the right idea AND MAKING IT WORK is EVERYTHING. Baird didn't even have the right idea.

Baird's system was only 15 lines on a vertical bias. Farnsworth's was (I believe) originaly 425 horizontal lines. There simply is no comparison.

talk about censorship back in the day! people just thought the tv came out of the air! how unfair! this guys contribution is so important to every picture video device in mankind lol!

He's one of the great inventors of all time. His reward? $80 cash and a carton of cigarettes.

@lemmymeringue8528

4 жыл бұрын

Randy Bailin $80 was a lot back then!

@mummyjohn

3 жыл бұрын

going to bed knowing you've changed humanity's course irrevocably is probably pretty rewarding

As he said, many people had a hand in developing the new medium. Read Wikipedia's article on the "History of Television" for all the details.

This show creates some mis-impressions. Words imposed on the screen say that Farnsworth invented TV when he was 14 in 1922. Actually, he was 14 in 1920. Also, he came up with diagrams for TV about 1920, but he did not finish building a TV system until September 1927. Even at that, it was another year or two before he put the first person - his wife, Elma - in front of the camera and transmitted her image. In addition, he is called "Dr. X" for purposes of the game show, but Farnsworth did not earn a doctorate degree and he did not receive an honorary doctorate until sometime after this program originally aired.

@usernameregrets I have seen a couple of years ago, 8K and 22.1 surround sound.

He s a relative from my mother's side. My grandfather is the late Herbert E Thomes. I was told it was spelled many ways such as Toms and others, Witch relates me to Marilyn Munroe Madonna the Bush president and Brad Pitt. The connection was made in England between The Bushes and Thomes. This could be 200 plus years ago.

@Gydinglight12 i can't put links in the comment box, but it is one of the first suggested videos on the side-bar, uploaded by "GiveMeBlackandWhite"

He's a fucking genius!

I think the tv is a love hate thing. You love that you have shows and can see all these things, but you hate it because it eats up your life and you can look at it for hours. It depends on what you think.

Winston contributed too

Only people like this that actually did something useful should be famous

@driver49 you heard what the man said most people didnt

Tesla was the in the top 2 most important inventors.