How a Teenager from Idaho Invented TV

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9 жыл бұрын

In 1921, radio ruled the airwaves and TV was a distant dream no one could turn into reality. Enter a scarily smart teenage sharecropper named Philo Farnsworth.
From: MY MILLION DOLLAR INVENTION: The Vision Thing
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@redsoxclover11 5 жыл бұрын

Idaho is so boring someone had to invent television to make it bearable .

@socktier6334 5 жыл бұрын

White Noise triggered

@redsoxclover11 5 жыл бұрын

Yes . I’ve been unfortunate enough to have lived in Idaho for 5 years for work. It’s a dry , boring , Mormon religion controlled hell hole.

@cadederrick6751 5 жыл бұрын

Idaho is beautiful.

@soybasedjeremy3653 5 жыл бұрын

@@redsoxclover11 Idaho... Are you thinking of Utah?

@redsoxclover11 5 жыл бұрын

Lloyd Christmas I’m thinking of both lol

@ppwalk05 9 жыл бұрын

need entire episode, this is just a tease

@irongoatrocky2343 3 жыл бұрын

F*&KING click bait! is what it is!

@makaiklump5213 7 жыл бұрын

2:13 *Looks at shoes* Seems legit.

@bryanmartinez6600 5 жыл бұрын

Makai Klump THEM KICKS ARE *FRESH*

@himself187 5 жыл бұрын

Time traveler

@brandonfleming7118 5 жыл бұрын

gotta keep them laces fresh af

@gabrielcolon8900 5 жыл бұрын

Makai Klump CONVERSES?!!!!!

@jaredsquirrels5242 5 жыл бұрын

They actually existed in the 1920's, not sure if they looked exactly like that, but it has some accuracy lol

@project0624 7 жыл бұрын

The dude created a TV and worked on a farm. Yet we're to fucking lazy to grab the remote that's 3 ft in front of us. Marvelous.

@northwestwendover 7 жыл бұрын

No fucking shit

@ItzDerpp 7 жыл бұрын

+Kevlvin S. SO FUCKING TRUE SO TRUE

@viperbot5311 3 жыл бұрын

@hydrolito 2 жыл бұрын

The Wright brothers dropped out of school and were bicycle repairmen and invented airplane. Something engineers with college educations couldn't do.

@Seemsayin Жыл бұрын

Dude... good post. Couldn't agree more. When people, back then, weren't happy with the direction of their lives... they actually did something about it. Instead of pissing & moaning about it, they motivated themselves.

@mdallday107 7 жыл бұрын

You're never too young to make the largest Impact on the world

@slava6653 3 жыл бұрын

Louise Katt OK boomer

@heru-deshet359 3 жыл бұрын

Or too old.

@TrackstarBEATS 3 жыл бұрын

TV is a pretty big impact but I think who ever founded the Light bulb has even a bigger impact

@johnprice2416 3 жыл бұрын

Good quote.

@lolhyena1714 3 жыл бұрын

Or too old btw

@belsnickel9568 6 жыл бұрын

14? That man looks like a 30 year old.

@PrinceJes 5 жыл бұрын

@Needles Iblis Nope

@walterkersting1362 5 жыл бұрын

Belsnickel ok, perv...

@juanmireles9155 5 жыл бұрын

walter kersting 😂😂

@busboy2730 5 жыл бұрын

@Needles Iblis that's what Idaho does to you haha

@Nothin2seehere-e4z 5 жыл бұрын

@@walterkersting1362 How is he or she perv? Saying that someone looks older or younger is not the same as being a pervert.

@troymercer7707 7 жыл бұрын

2:15 everyone wore converses then

@MichaelPolios 7 жыл бұрын

yeah they were common back then

@UserName-ii1ce 6 жыл бұрын

It's a timeless shoe

@bryanotero123 5 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelPolios They were around in the 40's

@tonyliu5427 5 жыл бұрын

1:13 wow, the bluest eyes i've ever seen..

@anotheraggieburneraccount 5 жыл бұрын

Tony Ton wow thats blue

@matthewfergudon8627 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty eyes

@Amooretliban 5 жыл бұрын

Tony Ton Mormons usually have very blue and bright eyes. Paul walker was a Mormon.

@tonyliu5427 5 жыл бұрын

@@Amooretliban tf? 😂😂😂

@tonyliu5427 5 жыл бұрын

@@Amooretliban so that's why he is died right?🤔

@KenSamaGomenasai 9 жыл бұрын

5:08 That was the most half-assed boardflip I've ever seen in my life...

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 жыл бұрын

Ken Sama you're the most half assed board flip I've ever seen.

@Tlactl 7 жыл бұрын

Later in his life, he went into a deep depression so he froze himself and went to the year 2950 to work at a robot manufacturing company. He quit his job to start a delivery company to fund his private research. In the year 3000, his distant uncle unfroze and started to work at his company as a delivery boy partnered with an alcoholic robot.

@michaeld954 7 жыл бұрын

lmao just what i was thinking or a crazy rant from professor farnsworth that his ancestor created the tv

@TheBaldr 5 жыл бұрын

That is Hubert J. Farnsworth, Philo Farnsworth's great-great-great-great-grandson

@Angrykat420 5 жыл бұрын

I smoke weed too

@oscarkorlowsky4938 5 жыл бұрын

Fry?

@lancelotkillz 5 жыл бұрын

What an internet gem💎

@theflerffyburr7919 7 жыл бұрын

Good News Everyone! I've invented a new box with moving pictures!

@Tlactl 7 жыл бұрын

lol I miss Futurama

@theflerffyburr7919 7 жыл бұрын

yay someone got it!

@Kid_Legend_4_Life 6 жыл бұрын

TheFlerffyBurr cool but I made a circle with moving pictures

@VGLNTGMR 6 жыл бұрын

Trizzdebos s i made a triangle with mooving pictures m9

@CarlosSanchez-en6mr 5 жыл бұрын

Lol, I straight thought of futurama while reading this

@sophiec4444 4 жыл бұрын

just proof that no matter your background, no matter how youve lived before, you can always change your direction and do great things :) this is so inspirational. what a brilliant young man

@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO 9 ай бұрын

Buying Magazines is a luxury. A luxury afforded to me at that same age. I had a subscription to "High Fidelity" Magazine. Now I work in Wireless Communications. Not everyone can afford a subscription to a magazine.

@doggygaming950 6 ай бұрын

Except he never made any money because those with money stole it and since he wasn't wealthy he couldn't stop it from happening.

@gandalfthegreatwhite4393 9 жыл бұрын

The story of inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth is a brilliant one.

@carolynmmitchell2240 6 жыл бұрын

Gandalf the Great White is real name is Hubert farnsworth.

@nadinecollins4443 6 жыл бұрын

Gandalf the Great White John Baird invented the tv

@pax41 5 жыл бұрын

Did you watch this episode? They explained that what Baird invented wasn't practical to use. What became the television that we know was what Farnsworth invented.

@organicfarm5524 3 жыл бұрын

@@pax41 doesn't change the fact that there were series of earlier reserch and inventions made by other people which helped Fransworth to finally come up with his 'television'. There were dozens of British, Italian, German, French, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Australian inventions/researches helped this young man living in American West to 'invent' the most successful TV of that time.

@bigfrankfraser1391 6 ай бұрын

@@pax41 yet as baird invented the actual process of transmitting images, he is credited as inventing the telivision, all hubert did was make it easier, all he did was take something that existed and find a way to make the bloody yanks rich from it, who knows, if hubert didnt refine it, maybe american tv wouldnt be so shyte

@alextsarapkine7999 7 жыл бұрын

2:14 he is wearing converse

@EliteHYPER31 7 жыл бұрын

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :D

@hanzup4117 5 жыл бұрын

Time traveller.

@azkymohamed123 3 жыл бұрын

Some great professor once said, 'Great knowledge can come from the humblest of origins'

@thenobletaco4232 7 жыл бұрын

oh my god Farnsworth like from futurama

@redraven699 5 жыл бұрын

Yup! Where did you think that futurama got the name from.

@sammydeol4459 5 жыл бұрын

2:20 It almost sounded like he was going to say "And his name is John Cena"

@parwindersingh9895 5 жыл бұрын

Sammy Deol

@Marked2429 5 жыл бұрын

Lmao we need this meme

@antonywaara2712 5 жыл бұрын

MEME IT

@freekicknoob638 6 жыл бұрын

Her eyes though! Damn

@86Miguelisimo 5 жыл бұрын

I know right, I wanst the only one noticing

@Amooretliban 5 жыл бұрын

She’s Mormon they have beautiful eyes. Paul walker was Mormon

@phillip.km.7323 5 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderrahl482 Lebanese ?

@jasleengill702 3 жыл бұрын

Lebanese mormonism is a religion...same thing as saying all christians have beautiful black hair

@krisb3429 5 жыл бұрын

She has the most beautiful blue eyes!

@Wanking_wanker 5 жыл бұрын

We are only able to watch this because of him

@sjhoff 3 жыл бұрын

what I find amazing is that he had a science teacher that understood what he was doing. Times have changed.

@Seemsayin Жыл бұрын

Trying to understand what you found so amazing about that. I'm not trying to find fault in your comment.... I just don't understand what you meant by that. Would you mind helping me to understand that?

@thegamingdonut3623 7 жыл бұрын

who else had no idea how it worked when they showed how the tv worked

@charlieclark9552 5 жыл бұрын

The Gaming Donut me

@fizpop01 5 жыл бұрын

I was confused by the one in England, not the one Philo described.

@GameArchiver 5 жыл бұрын

I think the things go through a thingy and then through another thingy and somehow make a moving picture out of plow fields.

@bibtebo 5 жыл бұрын

Just so we are clear, john logie beard invented the television. This guy improved it.

@doubtingthomas736 3 жыл бұрын

They'll be saying they invented the English language next!

@paulpaterson1661 2 жыл бұрын

@@doubtingthomas736 look it up Yankiedoodle. John Logie Baird invented the tv

@therespectedlex9794 Жыл бұрын

@@osphranterrufus You exaggerate. The pony express had none of the technical innovation of John Logi Baird.

@Stepho91x Жыл бұрын

Exactly 👏

@jjsv03 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't expect that the idea of raster scanning came from an agricultural perspective! Sugoi! Daebak! Amazing!

@simonh6371 5 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure it was Yogie Bear who invented the TV, hence the long-running documentary series about his life in Jellystone.

@stephaniegormley9982 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Although this is about Farnsworth, it's the only vid on youtube which explains mechanical TV in an easy to understand fashion.

@deanfirnatine7814 3 жыл бұрын

Safe to say he was a genius

@deketk5227 5 жыл бұрын

1:13 Imagine looking at a telly and then thinking wow my great grandad invented that

@CurlyHairedCarl 3 жыл бұрын

God bless idaho! Proud to live in this beautiful state!

@masonstaker4829 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@masonstaker4829 3 жыл бұрын

Did you serve a mission

@XAlucardmoonX 3 жыл бұрын

3:51 aliens told him a secret he pictured this in his mind

@TheMrgoodmanners 3 жыл бұрын

Philo was an inventor par excellence. His last invention was a patent for a fusion device

@Melissa0774 5 жыл бұрын

He was probably reading QST magazine. It still exist today. People still collect the old ones. They're pretty cool.

@DaniSmith_95 2 жыл бұрын

They need to make a movie about him...

@JacobSnell1998 5 жыл бұрын

It's incredible how intelligent some people are. I don't even fully understand how television works and I live in 2018.

@TinLeadHammer Жыл бұрын

"But how do you manipulate the speed of light to make a picture?" - you do not manipulate the speed of light, it is constant. You manipulate the direction of an electronic beam.

@bruhmoment1196 6 жыл бұрын

Dude: Give me the remote! Its not your TV! Jessica: well, technically it's my great grandpa's

@jamesburton1050 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing! I need to read up on this guy!

@norcalnative5582 7 жыл бұрын

very informative video, I'm a subscriber after watching it. thank you.

@lexusfan100 9 жыл бұрын

i need to see more!!

@GoldenTV3 5 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the girls name? For my school project of course.

@chrislj2005 3 жыл бұрын

Lucy Lawless

@kitcat8489 8 жыл бұрын

Actually, Farnsworth was born in Utah. He grew up in Idaho for the most part, but he was born and died in Utah.

@boredpandatv1214 6 жыл бұрын

Yuno Gasai that means he was southners

@barroldtrumboma9162 5 жыл бұрын

Bored PandaTV Utah and Idaho are both Western, not Southern. I’m a Westerner myself from Arizona.

@soybasedjeremy3653 5 жыл бұрын

@@boredpandatv1214 No..

@glane3962 3 жыл бұрын

Barrold Trumboma I believe Arizona was a Confederate controlled territory during the civil war

@ryanritter7814 3 жыл бұрын

Some of his family still is in Idaho. They own the mortuary in my town

@garylaw3244 3 жыл бұрын

Big man was wearing converse 😂. Didn’t know they were in 1921

@katzunjammer 8 жыл бұрын

it seems that inventions are not always created entirely by one person but are works in progress by different contibutors from different countries. Sometimes people have the idea of combining ideas together? It seems a bit suspect to me that a 14yr old farmer could have 'invented TV', and it seems more likeley that each country would laud their own contributors as THE inventor..... some inventors inventions are methodologies to mass produce a thing, or they invent machines that make machines.

@joeysrolloftoiletpaper147 7 жыл бұрын

I agree there's no point in fighting over it, even now the television is still getting improved upon. Same thing with the computer. the first telephone is a far cry from my iPhone.

@xikzombie5136 7 жыл бұрын

its my dream to become an inventor

@charlieswearingen500 6 жыл бұрын

Farnsworth contributed the most integral parts and the most patents towards the best working version of the television. Therefore, he was officially accredited with it's invention.

@charlieswearingen500 3 жыл бұрын

@Cryer24597 Baird transmitted the first TV image, but Farnsworth developed 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. Farnsworth developed the first practical television system complete with receiver and camera...

@John_19k_doe 5 жыл бұрын

Teens invented them and now we love them the most

@playerhater424 5 жыл бұрын

That girl has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen

@glenmartin2437 3 жыл бұрын

In window displays at Brigham Young University, I viewed some of the equipment Milo Farnsworth fabricated.

@sketchygetchey8299 3 жыл бұрын

People: Potatoes are the only thing Idaho is famous for. Farnsworth family: Are we a joke to you?

@Onnnit1 5 жыл бұрын

5:07 Me whenever I play chess.

@ariesradke6193 5 жыл бұрын

Jessica Moulton has wonderful eyes. I wonder if they are contacts.

@organicfarm5524 3 жыл бұрын

The shape of those whole eyes is amazing regardless of light colored iris.

@GettinThereGolf Жыл бұрын

this is prob the most impressive invention in my eyes, change my mind

@beanz_29 2 жыл бұрын

Blows my mind. And here we are watching TV on a phone

@thesadcloud5704 7 жыл бұрын

Way to fucking go smithsonian the "mormon" is wearing sneakers 2:14

@Jay_Murs 7 жыл бұрын

Converse were used to train soldiers in WW1. A little later on; they became big, EVERYONE wore Converse during that time.

@Fitz710 7 жыл бұрын

rekt m8

@WarriorsCats321 7 жыл бұрын

Converse were invented in 1908. So it's very possible he was just part of a new trend. :)

@WarriorsCats321 7 жыл бұрын

***** Still, whether it was Converse or something invented long before that, the shoes were around in the 1920s.

@nickg4564 7 жыл бұрын

maybe he was a time traveler, you never know

@geoffjones5421 Жыл бұрын

You mean John Biard don't you? He helped two other engineers to get electronic tv going - one German and on American. The German was the first with the electronic version!

@darfvaderr2191 Жыл бұрын

So what did Farnsworth actually hold a patent for?

@theedge5584 2 жыл бұрын

Left ALOT OF THE FACTS OUT

@mecate818 5 жыл бұрын

finally an appropriate video for the outro

@rhyzhenthioz 5 жыл бұрын

I am sorry. John loggy bear?

@endorbr 9 жыл бұрын

Too bad the TV wasn't called the Farnsworth instead. Would have been a much cooler name.

@SleepingWitheSirens Жыл бұрын

Tv / Radio / Cameras is the Greatest invention of all time.

@jakeevans8819 5 жыл бұрын

He"s one of my ancestors on my family tree

@michaelbeckerman7532 Жыл бұрын

Do you know Michael Farnsworth that lives in Longmont, CO? He is Philo's cousin.

@jakeevans8819 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelbeckerman7532 no I'm from California and I know some Farnsworth's out there

@paulpaterson1661 2 жыл бұрын

John Logie Baird invented the Television.

@baizawai 2 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video? They talk about him.

@MiamiPush2theLimit 5 жыл бұрын

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

@Mzwambedu 5 жыл бұрын

Ok what happens next... did u guys continue with the story... if so u should mention linknin description

@tzukit4727 7 жыл бұрын

He also invented a Farnsworth nuclear fusor

@tiffanyshumpert2882 4 жыл бұрын

Everytime somebody is doing something great somebody always after you

@user-ci3gk8um8l 2 жыл бұрын

Oh if only he knew how much destruction his invention would bring.

@pastorflaps6819 4 жыл бұрын

Tv was invented in the UK

@Jasongy827 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@ripplegaming7393 5 жыл бұрын

Can you make hour episodes from now on. It would be the best channel on KZfaq.

@yamahaguy1732 5 жыл бұрын

If he didn’t do this we wouldn’t be on here with a phone or anything

@ghazi_1105 5 жыл бұрын

John logie Baird

@brettmarshall5895 4 ай бұрын

Philo Farnsworth grand-daughter has the most AMAZING eyes!!!

@jonathanhamilton2437 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody tell John logy beard about this lol

@edmondchege7381 4 жыл бұрын

Plz upload the whole episode

@Steven-re7xt 9 ай бұрын

Combat engineer traveling out west. Boring.... A radio.. or a video player was fought over. Yes we had video on vinyl. Re rca players. Don't forget it's lonely out there. Video helps a lot. Thank you Philo.

@paularnold1930 3 жыл бұрын

TV was invented in England. First demo in Soho London

@dcanmore 3 жыл бұрын

by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, who then marketed the Baird Television and later Baird TV cameras.

@michaelbeckerman7532 Жыл бұрын

@@dcanmore the MECHANICAL version, not the ELECTRONIC version - the one that evolved into every single TV that we now watch today.

@dogdaze4308 3 жыл бұрын

my name is john. not really i just wanted to represent the people named john.

@penguin9941 5 жыл бұрын

2019 and we still don't have FM radio on our devices

@Joemar_Rimando 2 жыл бұрын

wow! inspiring inventor

@mc1993 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately history is filled with brilliant inventors who were crushed by threatened corporations and corrupt politicians. Frank Whittle is another incredible angst inducing story.

@vinylspell7179 4 жыл бұрын

Yes everything was invented in North America and Boris Lvovich Rosing was a American football player!

@dereksuddreth8672 3 жыл бұрын

Farming means early to bed, early to rise... dawn to dusk work. Television kept farmers up late at night, leading to the demise of family farms that we see today. Farmers were found sleeping in barns and haystacks across America, and many lost their farms to TV.

@Spillers72 Жыл бұрын

According to Edgar Cayce, they had mechanical TVs in Atlantis.

@theyyhatecameronn 2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the stories of my great ancestors. How do I POSSIBLY follow in his footsteps?

@angeedesierra 3 жыл бұрын

2:13 The Shoes. Plot twist, Philo Taylor Farnsworth also invented Chuck Taylor after his name.

@walterkersting1362 5 жыл бұрын

He died penniless...

@TweetyTaffy 8 ай бұрын

He didn't make enough for his invention.

@julesfuckingbonnot 2 жыл бұрын

"Did ye aye?" - John Logie Baird

@Appleholic1 4 жыл бұрын

Philos grandaughter sure has the most beautiful blue eyes I have ever seen.

@pumpkinmaryam5500 3 ай бұрын

we’re supposed to believe that grandpa looking man is a teen?! 😂

@marksprinkle 8 ай бұрын

I've watched TV my entire life. I still couldn't go back in time and "invent" a TV.

@masonstaker4829 3 жыл бұрын

Rigby Idaho is 7 mins away from my house

@DarkTheFailure 6 жыл бұрын

I want to see the rest of this

@nathanmilne8090 5 жыл бұрын

Tv was invented by John Logie Baird from Argyll, Scotland in 1926. He also made the first coloured tv in 1962.

@DippinSauc 5 жыл бұрын

A Mormon invented TV? Well, he had to invent something to make his life bearable.

@nicksacco5041 5 жыл бұрын

Wow that's brilliant

@StanStr 3 жыл бұрын

I like when it describes the TV signal being transmitted by radio waves, it has a long & short beep beep beep, sound like as if it's Morse code (at ~2:54).

@miciboo9993 3 жыл бұрын

How do you like Plasma tv?