Long back ago in 1921 a sharecrop in Rigby Idaho a Mormon family the Farnsworth’s recently moved in. Teenage son Philo was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and become a farmer but he has other ideas.

Philo Farnsworth grows up at a time when you have these great lone inventors who were conquering the world at Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell and they become his heroes it was filled with nervous energy and he was always tinkering and trying to invent things and chance discovery in the farm attic is about to change his life.

Radio

A collection of books and magazines dedicated to scientific advancements like radio the Miracle of sound transported through the air. The radio was very popular back then it was just a brand new adventure finally we are sending through the air but Philo’s books also talked about the next great challenge a new type of radio that can beam pictures as well as sounds many great inventors tried and failed but on this farm in Idaho Philo is about to see a way of making it happen. 

The Idea of Moving pictures

Philo had a two-horse team and the disc carl’s behind him as he’s plowing he finishes and looks behind and that's when it seems that there are lines across the field. Philo sees something in the lines of Earth, the possibility of slicing an image into two parallel rows and the point of light scanning the Rows line by line if it moves faster it could make pictures even moving pictures.

But how can one trick the speed of light to create a picture? In Britain, a Scottish inventor thinks he has the answer his name was John Logie Baird. His solution was a mechanical spinning disc pierced with a sequence of holes each below the next. Beams of light pass through the hole and the lens focuses them on a subject in a darkened room. The light reflecting from the subject is received by photocells which translate it into electrical current transmitted by radio waves a radio receiver turns waves back into electrical current and Feeds it to a Neon lamp a second disk spinning at precisely the same speed then projects the light reassembling the image.

Logi Bairds mechanical TV was elegantly simple it produced fairly crude pictures it was a brilliant invention but wasn’t practically implemented on a large scale. The mechanical disc made the sets too large and they move too slowly to create a sharp image. But Philo thinks he found a better solution in the pages of scientific journals, electrons subatomic so small they can move back and forth tens of thousands of times per second if he can find a way to control them. He realized and understood that electrons would be faster enough to do it one line at a time and that the human eye would see as one picture.

Explaining the Idea of how T.V. could run

He was desperate to tell someone about this idea so one day he sketches it out for his science teacher. Mr.Tollman shows what Philo calls an image dissector. Light enters through a lens it’s converted into electrons which pass through a vacuum and then it turned into electronic signals that can be beamed out wide like a radio signal but this signal recreates the original image. 

Line by line it was the world's first electronic TV camera and his teacher was blown away he couldn't believe that a 14-year-old could conceive these ideas and not alone understand them. Tollman looked at it and said it just might work and that was really all encouragement he needed. 

Philo Farnsworth holds the key to one of the most valuable inventions of the 20th century and it's about to make him a target for jealous arrivals determined to steal his ideas.