American Inventions: The Television — VOA Learning English
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Television has made it possible for people around the world to share in many different experiences – sports, music shows, films, and more.
Yet many people would find it difficult to name the inventor of the television. They might also be surprised to learn that the inventor came up with the idea when he was just fourteen years old.
Today, we explore the life of one of the great inventors of 20th century America: Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
A young boy
Philo Farnsworth was born in August 1906, near Indian Creek in the western state of Utah. The house he lived in for the first few years of his life had no electricity. But Philo read about electricity and quickly began to experiment with it.
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