It was fitting that Philo Farnsworth should be a contestant on the television show I’ve Got A Secret. He had perhaps the most important secret in the history of the show. Without his secret there would not have been a television show, any television show. Because you see, Philo Farnsworth invented television. Not only that, he invented it when he was a 14-year old high school freshman. Years later in a patent fight with RCA, his high science teacher would testify to drawings Farnsworth made on a blackboard in class. Farnsworth won.
After his secret was revealed he was asked what he was working on. It almost sounds like he is describing HDTV and TIVO. But this interview was in 1957!
Compared to inventing television as a 14-year old it is perhaps not the most remarkable thing about him. But his appearance on I’ve Got A Secret was Farnsworth's one and only appearance on television. And here it is:
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