Color photograph of cathode ray (television) tube lying beside metal ruler
Cathode ray tube

Philo T. Farnsworth Television Tubes Collection

Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, was born in Beaver, Utah, in 1906. While a young teenager, he developed a theory for the electronic transmission of images. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1925, then in 1927 he demonstrated the first working model of a television system.