【美国人物志】菲洛·泰勒·法恩斯沃(6/9)

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75年前电视在旧金山郊外的一间实验室里诞生了。它的创造者是年仅21岁的美国男孩菲洛·法恩斯沃思。在20世纪的大部分时间里，他几乎被人们遗忘了———尽管他的发明塑造了20世纪，甚至从某种意义上成为这个世纪的特征。
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Philo Farnsworth
Brigham Young University
Utah
San Francisco
California

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Philo Farnsworth had to solve several problems before he could produce a working television system. One was that he was only 14 years old. He knew no one would listen to a child. In fact, experts say that probably only ten scientists in the world at that time could have understood his idea. Philo also had no money to develop his ideas. His idea for a working television would have to wait. After only two years of high school, Philo entered Brigham Young University in Utah. But he did not finish his education. He was forced to leave school when his father died. Philo did not give up his idea for creating a television. He began serious work on it when he moved to San Francisco, California a few years later. He was 21 years old.