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@topkek3409

4 жыл бұрын

How is this comment a week old lol

@jboss119

4 жыл бұрын

Ok I'm really excited I saw this... my grandfather worked with Farnsworth on the color tv. He later went to GE and worked on the apollo program at NASA. No one knows who Farnsworth was. I have a who's who book from the 60's with my grandfather listed on the farnsworth team. From what I understand my grandfather is in some museum somewhere relating to farnsworth. Anyways this just made my day!!! RIP Dr. W.J.F.

@emperorstar1250

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever considered doing a video on Ayn Rand?

@d.c.8828

4 жыл бұрын

Please do Biographics episodes on Jacque Fresco & Buckminster Fuller!!!!!!!!

@atapplumbinginquiriesandre3557

4 жыл бұрын

Great video you have some issues with sound on this one echoing a lot

"The patent office ruled in favor of Farnsworth." "Good news, everyone!"

@jimmyyu2184

4 жыл бұрын

Philip J. Fry & Bender: "Oh Crap..."

@julielabrouste6344

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Usually or almost always the bastard corporation wins.

Farnsworth is my mom’s uncle. She said that when she’d see him at family dinners, he was always “that weird uncle” who was lost in his own world, dreaming up new inventions instead of talking to anyone. She was just a kid, and didn’t understand what a freakin’ huge deal he was. He died before I was born, so I sadly never met him.

@rascal_rae

4 жыл бұрын

hi, we're related!! haha... mormons

@HavaWM

4 жыл бұрын

Lils Bee - OMG, what a small world. 😄

@gettfoffmynews3315

4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@TheStrayHALOMAN

4 жыл бұрын

Hubert Farnsworth from the show Futurama is a descendant of your uncle :D

@lucasmoreirasantos8377

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! He really seems that kind of extravagant genius. Thank you for sharing!

1926, true television is invented. One channel and there was nothing to watch. 2020, television has advanced beyond our wildest dreams. 2000 channels, and still, there's nothing on.

@vengefulspirit99

4 жыл бұрын

I have about 300 different games on steam but I have nothing to play

@LemonyVengeance

4 жыл бұрын

and it's all because of a freakin' mormon.

@idinlvvegas5528

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why we’re here! 😀

@Psychid5

2 жыл бұрын

Nearly endless amount of movies and series in Netflix, HBO and Amazon Prime with more added constantly but there's still it's so hard to find anything to watch.

I was hugely disappointed when you said "we need to introduce one of Farnsworth's chief adversaries" but the next words out of your mouth were not "Ogden Wernstrom"

@ashcoates25

4 жыл бұрын

Morbos1000 Wernstrom!

As someone who lives in Fort Wayne, I'm pretty sure the reason for his breakdown was living in Fort Wayne.

@jboss119

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather and mom is from fort wayne... funny story. My step dad is a pilot, my mom and me were on a check flight with him. He plotted a course to fort wayne, announced we were landing and did a touch and go... it's the only time I've been there. My mom goes thank God, I thought we would have to get out and walk around.

@starmanbowie5506

4 жыл бұрын

@@jboss119 Fort Wayne should be capitalized It's a name

@BIGOLEMARR

4 жыл бұрын

Starman Bowie Please leave

@michaelkirchner8379

4 жыл бұрын

@@starmanbowie5506 if you have been there you would understand the small case letters.

@dawnhandschy8111

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't doubt it. But times were different back then so what we are living through might be worse. Who knows though. The only reason im still here is for my kids and grandkids.

I live in Fort Wayne Indiana and the house that he had here is still standing. There is a big sign out front that honors him. I made sure to take my children there when they were younger so they know who was really responsible and I hope to do the same with my grandchildren.

Apparently, this video's audio was haunted by the Ghosts of Simons Past.

@youdontsay11

Жыл бұрын

I’d like this if it wasn’t already at 69

@christophersteele5709

Жыл бұрын

@@youdontsay11 nice

I havent watched this yet but all that is in my head is FUTURAMA and his yelling about GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! and when he is yelling about his wheel chair..its the one with the whhheeellss on it!

@richhozzy480

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! I had to scroll threw the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one! Lol

@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan

4 жыл бұрын

Sending people to their deaths.

@sahholsteins1

4 жыл бұрын

@@richhozzy480 I know right me too!! I was also scrolling looking if anyone had said anything yet lol

@ztoob8898

4 жыл бұрын

It's not a wheelchair! It's the whone with the whheellls on it, but it's not a wheelchair!

@memawknowsbest4978

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of the episode where the Professor is showing everyone his family tree and Philo Farnsworth is on it. It's the episode when they lick the heads and go back in time. If I remember correctly, the Professor says he invented TV, and as a bonus childhood obesity.

11:51 simon.exe has stopped working

"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do."

@djquinn11

4 жыл бұрын

Truth

@kathleenmacdonald5511

4 жыл бұрын

I am sure he knew how smart he was early on, when no student could compete with him.

@villiersman951

4 жыл бұрын

yep dead right

I hear a lot of "So and So was the Tony Stark of their time" comparisons, so I feel it just needs to be noted that Tony Stark would be the Nikola Tesla of his time.

I used to hangout with his great grand nephew. He never shut up about him. Also, Beaver is referred to as Fillmore-Beaver. Just for your chuckles, guys

@masterchinese28

Жыл бұрын

There's also a museum dedicated to him/TV in Rigby, ID.

Anyone else having a weird echo effect

@kevinurso1944

4 жыл бұрын

probably a botched overdub or edit. Simon is, after all, just a mere mortal. But we love him just the same.

@whoslord6702

4 жыл бұрын

Yea. Don’t sound like no echo though. Sounds like something they put in

@CodyJMcCann

4 жыл бұрын

They added a crossfade that was too lengthy on the edit points. Results in crosstalk everytime there's a cut. Editor should have used clean cuts or quicker crossfades

@TravisSelassieSimbawafedha

4 жыл бұрын

Or it's a purposeful joke about how older TVs use to crossfade.

How have I never heard of this guy? I've spent hours of my life staring at his invention!

@famepaint

3 жыл бұрын

Years*

@theoriginalshew

3 жыл бұрын

@@famepaint years have hours in them

Philo is one of my heroes. His grand niece lived in Melboune Australia for a couple of years about a decade ago. I met her but he died when I was a baby. Now he changed the world- he sparked the competition between BYU and Utah U as later, Nolan Bushnell had to compete with Philo and BYU to create something as great.

@kenanacampora

4 жыл бұрын

I grew up across the street from Mr. Atari

I am related to him. His wife was present at our family reunions in the 80s. I was pretty young. But to this day our family still speaks about the two of them. My grandfather was John Farnsworth. I was surprised to see you covering him. I watch your channel often.

The quote should be "2% inspiration, 98% stealing other peoples work"

did he inspire the creation of Hubert Farnsworth from Futurama 😂

@MortRotu

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, I think it's said that they're related in one episode

@kingkuroneko7253

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe

@gerardryan3692

3 жыл бұрын

@@MortRotu great zombie jesus.

In the Salt Lake City TV market, all the transmitters are perched high atop Farnsworth's Peak in the Oquirrh Mountain range.

1:15 - Chapter 1 - Early power 4:25 - Chapter 2 - The birth of TV 10:10 - Mid roll ads 11:55 - Chapter 3 - Farnworth vs Zworykin 17:05 - Chapter 4 - 1 in 500 millions

Awesome video Simon! Thanks so much from Salt Lake City, UT just 18 miles northeast of Farnsworth Peak which is appropriately topped with transmission antennae for 19 local television stations! :-)

His Fing-longer will be revolutionary.

Futurama Professor Farnsworth was named after Philo. Philo even made a cameo in an episode where is the Professor was a distance relative.

The first time I heard of him was the show "Sports Night" William H Macy was doing a monologue about his brother in law (Cliff Gardner), and how he taught himself how to blow glass, so Philo could make his television

I always figured he was driven to invent this because the only thing of interest in Rigby is a sign saying the inventor of TV used to live there.

“The more I practice, the luckier I get” Gary Player

His work for Warehouse 13 also cannot be understated!

Dang this guy seems as innovative as Volta and Faraday!

@markjohnson5712

4 жыл бұрын

Good point! Nice channel btw.

Well done, again. Thank you.

These shows are wonderful, thank you.

Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey

@ben4212

4 жыл бұрын

And don't forget Jack Ketchum son Ash Ketchum

@jacobavners2394

4 жыл бұрын

Also Tadeusz Kosciuszko!!

@superdog1964

4 жыл бұрын

And Rancid Veeblefester! (What a guy)

Philo's grave is actually just down the road from me

@JB-rl7hh

4 жыл бұрын

Very cool

yaay I'm happy you made a video about Philo

@rascal_rae

4 жыл бұрын

I like to think that I inherited my love for electronics from him.. building modular synths and playing techno

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson

@seanbrazell6147

4 жыл бұрын

As opposed to Thomas Edison who said "The harder OTHER people work the more luck I seem to have."

@hkbabel

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrazell6147 Sadly true

@James-xr7pb

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrazell6147 DAM! Nice Burn :D

@t.c.thompson2359

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanbrazell6147 You can't really say that a slaveowner was living the opposite of that philosophy.

@forcedtohaveahandle

4 жыл бұрын

@@t.c.thompson2359 got 'em

Thanks for filling in old thoughts and remembrances from the past

Finally! This was one of the first guys I suggested right as you started the channel.

It's truly amazing that I'm watching this bigraphical video about a Utah/Idaho farmboy that invented TV on my smartphone narrated by a British dude 5,000 miles away...astonishing times we live in really. Humanity doesn't really understand how good we have it, and how much better it can be in the future.

Another good one, thank you!

The TV show 'Warehouse 13' honoured Farnsworth by giving the characters a miniature tele-communication device, fitted into a tin box, that was called a 'Farnsworth'. Excellent video, about an inexplicably forgotten genius. Thank you.

@jray5363

Жыл бұрын

That was a good show! I’ve got the entire series on DVD. It should have lasted a lot longer! Every time I hear his name, I think of Warehouse 13!

thanks, simon this vid made me cry, it' great

None of what he accomplished would have happened without the invention of the triode vacuum tube in 1906 by Lee DeForest. You might think about doing a Biographics on him as well.

i find it hard to believe a major corporation would engage in underhanded tactics in pursuit of profits.

I wonder how many good engineers were put in their graves early thanks to RCA's tactics. Absolutely inhuman monsters. Look up Edwin Armstrong's story.

@ernestkopp4367

2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU TELLING ABOUT R C A TACTICS. STARTED IN ELECTRONIC TELEVISION 1948 RED HOOK BROOKLYN, FROM THERE TO ALLEN B. Du MONTH,EAST PATERSON NEW JERSEY(ELMWOOD N J)

That was a fascinating and marvelous life story, thank you for doing this mans life justice.

Great stuff!

Really Great Video!

Great vid!

Always awsome and funny thanks keep up good work

The Whizz Kid sounds like some kid winning a spelling bee championship.

@SonjaPierce

4 жыл бұрын

Or the nasty cheese whiz from the store. I was blessed, both of my parents refused to buy it. I'm thankful to this for them.

another great video!. do one on Louis Riel plleeease

thanks for the info:)

Could you possibly look into doing one about Johnny cash?

That's it then. Simon has possessed my laptop.

@hkbabel

4 жыл бұрын

Mine also. There are no radiators in the house where I live/work.. How do I chain myself to an airduct?

Fantastic. Excellent dissertation. Carry on Sir. Carry on. Be safe. Good health to you and your family. D

I truly enjoy your way of telling the history behind the all the famous people who made our lives worth it !!! You rock Simon Whistler !!!

amazing stuff mate, keep up the good work! is there any chance you could do the next video about Tadeusz Kosciuszko?

I'm joining the multiple requests I've seen a while ago - please do make an upcoming video about Tadeusz Kosciuszko! Definitely worth it, especially in light of what is going on in the USA right now

To be able to at the end of your life, look back, and know that you've changed the world forever for the better must be a fantastic feeling

@privateemail9755

4 жыл бұрын

"better" hahaha, YMRA EHT NIOJ

Philo Farnsworth, the Bill Finger of TV.

Great summary of a genius' life! Two small details: 13:30 the photo shows Zworykin holding an iconoscope, the camera tube, not a kinescope, the picture tube; 15:19 Zworykin's camera tube was called iconoscope, Farnsworth's, an image dissector (shown in photo).

Hello Simon! I love your videos and all of your channels but I’ve never made a request I was wondering if you could do Israel Kamakawiwo'ole? The guy who sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I’d be really interested in his story! Thanks mate, Cheers!

Please do one on Jan Smuts!

Can you cover John Logie Baird plz?

Yo, great vid would you take suggestions for the next one? I'd love to see one about Tadeusz Kościuszko.

Excellent, as always. Thanks. Could I suggest Clark Gable or John Holmes for a Bio?

GOODNEWS EVERYONE!

Hey! I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana! His home is a small museum in the historic district in town. I was waiting for it to be mentioned. Love the show, keep it up!

I live within a mile of the Farnsworth house in Fort Wayne, IN. It's great to learn more of his history than the little bit of information on the plaque outside the house.

At 11:51 it's crazy Simon is repeating the line: So I really hope you found that.

Philo Farnsworth is a distant cousin of mine. Well I mean when your family settled Utah, y’all are related 😂 But in all seriousness he truly was a genius and I hope people can appreciate his mind. Just like so many geniuses, substance abuse and other issues brought him down just before his death poor guy. But I think he was an amazing mind and an example of working hard for something and keeping at it even though resources to help in school weren’t there.

🖐🖐🖐🖐Hey Simon 🖐🖐🖐🖐 So Ive spent over an hour trying to figure out how to email you. I hate Social Media so I gave up trying and figured why not just a comment on your last video. Tomorrow, June 12th, marks a day to remember in the U.S. (my birthday😱🥱... BUT ALSO) Loving V. Virginia...PLEASE LOOK INTO IT. The story has transformed the way the courts and the State look at marriage. Richard and Mildred Loving are a great example of how Love can conquer all prejudices! Just a thought on a great subject we can all learn from. ☝️Also, it would be nice to have a link on how to send you emails 😄😄😉

We got so many cool people from Utah! We got Butch Cassidy, John Moses Browning, and now this guy! 😀

Here’s one thing you don’t have to worry about, Simon. Your entertaining and educational videos will be used by schools for decades. You truly put in a great deal of time and effort (and your team) to bring us facts that need to be shared.

Growing up in Fort Wayne, IN, in the 80s and 90s, I learned a lot about his amazing work in electronics. He is celebrated in our local Historical Museum, and his home, "The Philo T. Farnsworth House," is a historical site and just a few blocks from my house (a modest but beautiful home). Even though he only spent a portion of his life here, he is regarded as one of Fort Wayne's most honored citizens.

"Watching the news in three dimensions". Where can I get me one of those?

In the series Warehouse 13 they use a device that Farnsworth called a Farnsworth, a sort of visual cell phone.

Living in Idaho we learned about Philo in Idaho but I don't remember it as like remember it as being this thorough. Great job, very enlightening! 👍

@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks

4 жыл бұрын

with grammar like that, it shows you're from Idaho :)

@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks

4 жыл бұрын

@c ball *Shows. But I think you're missing the humor bro 🤦‍♂️

@Gas_Station_Tampons

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks LOL. over his head i guess 🤷‍♀️

@Treron_Sinclair

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks Ooooohhh You *Shows him LOL!!! c ball FAIL

@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks

4 жыл бұрын

@@Treron_Sinclair With all c ball's Wiseass education, He lost his funny bone LOL 😉

Simon, could you do Constantine the Great and Augustus Caesar

awesome video Simon, do you think you could do a related video on Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, the Mexican scientist who invented Color TV?

Simon, I don't know if I should be directing this at you or your editor, but I have 2 definitions for you; Electronic: adjective (of a device) having or operating with the aid of many small components, especially microchips and transistors, that control and direct an electric current. Electric: adjective of, worked by, charged with, or producing electricity. They aren't interchangeable. You didn't use it wrong EVERY time, but, for example, I'm pretty sure he didn't make his mother's washing machine "electronic," but I'd be willing to bet he hooked a motor up to it, making it electric. Otherwise, the video was awesome (as all of your videos are)!

Good news everyone!

Beaver County means something very different in Canada.

Biographics can you make next video of Hideki Tojo?

We stand in the footsteps of giants

Good news everyone!!

I have a Farnsworth console radio with AM and short wave bands. It works, too.

Simon! Do a Biographics on Sally Hemings!

🔥👍👍👍👍😀 keep up the good work

"Wernstrom" !!!

@11:51 you have an audio glitch after the SqureSpace ad. The ad is fine it's just the bit of sounds repeats going back to the documentary.

No mention of John Logie Baird, Simon? I'm surprised and disappointed.

@zufalllx

4 жыл бұрын

Damnit man... Now I have to switch windows to consult the Google...

@telmomoreira7616

4 жыл бұрын

That man deserve a whole video!

@Mark01962

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Baird can be classed as the inventor of a mechanical TV system and a first proven TV system that worked but it was eventually made obsolete. Farnsworth did the same later for electronic TV but it took 70 years for his system to become obsolete.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mark01962 Thanks to Peter Carl Goldmark, if I'm not mistaken.

@Mark01962

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenwright8824 inventor of the LP? Another inventor whose invention is now, mostly, obsolete?okay.

0:37 I believe you may be incorrect. I think he meant you have to keep iterating until it works, even if it takes 1,000 tries.

When I was in third grade a classmate of mine told that his great uncle had invented television. I was not sure if I should believe him at the time but later I discovered that his mom's dad' s brother was none other than Philo T. Farnsworth. Six degrees!

@HavaWM

4 жыл бұрын

David Johnson - then I’m related to your classmate! 😅 Is this where we all start singing, “It’s A Small World”?

A great scientist, inventor, and engineer, and a great man.

Is there a way to put in a request? Would love to see a biographic on Michael Collins 😁

My great-grandmother knew Philo in Rigby as well as at BYU. She said he was a bit of an eccentric who was deeply obsessed with science.

Yes we did find it interesting

We want a Simon Whistler convention or conference!!! We want to meet the team! Let's make this a real thing

You should do a video on Claude Shannon who kickstarted the telecommunications age with his university masters thesis