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Show BUCKHORN BOY IS ! COMPLETING WORK 0N TELEVISION JOB Born on a ranch on Buckhorn, south of Beaver, Philo T. Farnsworth Farns-worth who has devoted several year9 to perfecting "television," promises to become the first of the many inventors in-ventors working on the problem, to place Tiis electrical radio television set on the market. Farnswortb told the executives of the Crocker First National bank at San Francisco, who have backed him for five years, that radio television by electricity Was an accomplished fact and Teady for commercial production. pro-duction. The Farnsworth laboratory on the side of Telegraph hill was a scene of general activity as the youthful inventor in-ventor and his assistants packed delicate de-licate instruments and equipment and prepared to leave for Philadelphia Phila-delphia to direct construction of the production-model. He will, it was asserted, have the full resources of the Philadelphia Storage Battery company, manufacturer manufac-turer of radio sets, in making his production-model. Farnsworth was born near Beaver August 15, 1906, a son of L. E. Farnsworth. After leaving high school he attended Brigham Young University. While in high school the inventor worked out the principles prin-ciples of television and was ready to start work on the set at the age of 19. His first laboratory was in Hollywood, Holly-wood, Calif., and when he interested the engineers of the Crocker Research Re-search laboratory in the commercial possibilities of his invention he was offered the quarters in San Francisco. Francis-co. Farnsworth, who, as a boy of 19, "sold" hard-headed San Francisco bankers and technical engineers up- !on the idea of furnishing financial : backing over a span of years, broadcast broad-cast pictures .for. the United Press correspondent to demonstrate the goal he has attained. The radio-transmitted "movies" were shown on a screen eight by twelve inches. Two subjects were projected: the heavyweight championship cham-pionship fight between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey at Chicago and a woman combing her hair. In the fight picture, faces of. men three or four tows back from the ringside could be seen. Each punch could be followed from the start until un-til it landed. Farnsworth said that he worked four years to gain clarity on a picture pic-ture four inches square, but that in the last month a method has been evolved of enlarging the picture to eight by twelve inches without losing los-ing clarity. The goal in sight, he said, is a picture fourteen iby eighteen eigh-teen inches. By using electricity, Farnsworth can send 5,000,000 recorded impulses, impuls-es, through the aid each second. This speed, he claims, gives better results than could be obtained in television by mechanical devices. Instruments developed by Farnsworth Farns-worth appear to be featured by simplicity. sim-plicity. The major parts of his set are two tubes, painted inside with a photo-electric preparation. Thel ife of these tubes, it is estimated, will be at least 2000 hours. o |