INVENTOR

Philo Farnsworth

1906 - 1971

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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the image dissector, as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philo Farnsworth has received more than 2,716,824 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Philo Farnsworth is the 177th most popular inventor (up from 194th in 2019), the 2,543rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,777th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Inventor.

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  • 62.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Philo Farnsworth ranks 177 out of 426. Before him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Reginald Fessenden, Charles Cros, Matthew Boulton, Friedrich Zander, and Joseph Monier. After him are Henrich Focke, James Dyson, Georges Claude, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Charles Martin Hall, and Larry Sanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Philo Farnsworth ranks 110. Before him are Humberto Delgado, Wolf Albach-Retty, Piero Taruffi, Dita Parlo, Giuseppe Siri, and Hamazasp Babadzhanian. After him are Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Chester Carlson, Enrico Mattei, Yasuo Haruyama, Denis de Rougemont, and Musa Cälil. Among people deceased in 1971, Philo Farnsworth ranks 61. Before him are Viktor Patsayev, Dean Acheson, Royal Rife, Broncho Billy Anderson, Dita Parlo, and Pedro Rodríguez. After him are Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, Princess Anna of Montenegro, Van Heflin, Paul Lukas, Yrjö Väisälä, and Hermann Ehrhardt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philo Farnsworth ranks 2,543 out of 20,380. Before him are Willy DeVille (1950), Tom Sizemore (1961), Xander Berkeley (1955), Earl Boen (1945), John C. Calhoun (1782), and Barbara Bain (1931). After him are Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Sean Young (1959), Delphine LaLaurie (1787), Richard Brautigan (1935), James L. Brooks (1940), and Gloria Grahame (1923).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Philo Farnsworth ranks 42. Before him are Elias Howe (1819), Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Bob Kahn (1938), Alfred Vail (1807), Garrett Morgan (1877), and Royal Rife (1888). After him are Charles Martin Hall (1863), Larry Sanger (1968), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Christopher Latham Sholes (1819), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), and Eunice Newton Foote (1819).

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