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.