It was sixty years ago today...

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...that Philo Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called the "image dissector". We all know (right?) that he was a poor Mormon farmboy plowing the field behind a horse when the idea came to him, of a dot of light moving along a rut, as it were.

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Topic - It was sixty years ago today... - clarkjohnsen 09:29:39 09/07/07 (1)

Actually, eighty... nt - clarkjohnsen 11:09:56 09/08/07 (0)

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