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Philo T. Farnsworth invented a precursor to television at the age of 15

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As a boy on his Utah farm, Philo Farnsworth used to enjoy watching the plows go back and forth. In 1921, at the age of 15, he had the sketches and diagrams to compile an electronic television system.

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