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Philo T. Farnsworth

Inventor of the television. Vladimir Zworykin copied his idea for RCA. He helped RCA keep all possible profits out of Farnsworth's hands. At age 14, young Philo had his working idea all set. He was a farmboy genius, and it was cornfields with different-colored corn that inspired him to use pixels the way he did. At 21, Farnsworth had his first working model of a television. Farnsworth also designed the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor, which was the first fusor to demonstrate actual nuclear fusion.
Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television designed the first working Fusor, but he is not famous. His wife, Elma, always fought for his place in history. She died in 2006.

Farnsworth Aerospace 5-8

Farnsworth is a bitchass school , everyone there either two faced or slow and retarded. this school wackk like on god , everyone there they got clout lmfaoo. the popular girls always tryna help new kids with they schedule and give a good impression.
someone new : needs help with schedule at farnsworth

popular girl : I'll help , being nice to them .

Farnsworth Aerospace 5-8 means people think they have clout .

Farnsworth Phenomenon

Auditory phenomenon wherein reading a line of text commonly attributed to a person or persons with a particularly unique voice or accent causes the mind to hear that person's voice. This is not unique to famous individuals, as works clearly written with various accents (Irish, French, Pirate) yield similar results.

So named after the character Professor Farnsworth in Futurama.
So my buddy texted me, 'What's the Farnsworth Phenomenon?', so I texted him back, 'What do you think of when I type 'Good News Everyone?', a minute later he sends me back a '=O'

Farnsworth Phenomenon

Auditory phenomenon wherein reading the work of a person with a particularly unique voice or accent causes the mind to hear that person's voice. Happens a lot of with Professor Farnsworth's catch phrase.
Good News, Everyone!

You just said that like Professor Farnsworth, hence the Farnsworth Phenomenon
Farnsworth Phenomenon by bobbyddog November 7, 2010

Farnsworth 

A form of sarcastic agreement with someone where you contradict them using the following format: "If by {something} you mean {something opposite} then yes." (Named after the character Professor Farnsworth on Futurama.)
Bob: That is awesome!
Jim: If by "awesome" you mean "it sucks" then yes.
Fred: FARNSWORTH'D!
Farnsworth by C Pritzel March 3, 2007

Farnsworthian 

When science does something that ends up going very badly, despite the (hopefully) good intentions behind it.
In a rather Farnsworthian turnaround, drugs designed to kill viruses in our bodies have caused those viruses to evolve and become stronger, and resistant to the drugs.
Farnsworthian by Andersonius February 25, 2012
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