design and showed the design to his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman. Philo covered a couple of chalkboardswith diagrams. After the death of his father, Lewis Farnsworth, Philo quit school to take care of his family. Philo applied for an office boy job. He was interviewed by George Everson who was impressed by his schoolrecord and asked why he dropped out. Philo told him that he had to take care of his family and to work on hisinvention. After Philo explained it to Mr. Everson, Mr. Everson thought it was a good idea and thought someoneshould put some money in to it. Mr. Everson remembers this meeting well in his biography on Philo Farnsworth. Mr.Everson and a San Francisco partner named Leslie Gorrel drew up a contract to help the young inventor since only aworking model could meet patent requirements. Philo Farnsworth also got twenty-five thousand dollars from thefamous San Francisco banker, W.W. Crocker. Philo moved into half of a two family house in San Francisco with his family. The other family was theGardners. The Gardner's oldest son, Cliff, became good friends with Philo. The prettiest of the six Gardner daughterswas named Elma, but everyone called her Pem. She was only a year younger than Philo who had started to callhimself Phil now because he thought it sounded more mature. On Pem's birthday in 1926 Phil proposed to her, buttheir youth and uncertainty of their lives made them postpone setting a wedding date. Later, in the spring of 1926, Philand Cliff opened their own store to repair radios.Phil and Pem were married in 1926. On Phil's wedding night Phil confessed to his 19-year-old bride:Pemmie, I have to tell you there is another woman in my life and her name is television. The way I see it, my work is going to be taking most of my time. The only way we will have the time together I would like is for you to work with me. How about it? It will be exciting. We'll be working right on the...
