Philo Farnsworth George Everson (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Front hinge shows a hairline split of the paper. Still firm, tight, clean , and bright. Overall VG. Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. His patents were crucial to the development of television.He is perhaps best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional video camera tube, the "image dissector", as well as the first fully functional and complete television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation, from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor, or simply "fusor", employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Although not a practical device for generating nuclear energy, the fusor serves as a viable source of neutrons.The design of this device has been the acknowledged inspiration for subsequent approaches to fusion reactor design. Farnsworth held 300 patents, mostly in radio and television. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Pp. 266, 4 plates, a couple of text figures; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards lightly rubbed, the fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and chipped, the front flap clipped, spine faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, about two ownership stamps on the upper free endpaper, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; W. W. Norton & Company Inc., New York, 1949. First edition. *Biography of 'the father of television', the American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971) who was granted the first patent of televisions by the United States Government. The author met Farnsworth in 1926 and became virtually a partner in the organisation that became the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation.