leading edge of discovery. (Farnsworth, E., 1990,p.22) Phil's lab, located at 202 Green Street, San Francisco, was full of tools. He even had to learn glass blowingfor his cathode-ray tube. In 1927 Phil made his first transmission (explained later). When he and his team weretransmitting another picture the camera man was smoking and some of the smoke appeared on the film when theyplayed it. Then they knew that you could have a moving image. The first moving image done on purpose was a burningcigarette. The only problem with the "cigarette show" was that the smoker had to get so close to the transmitter(because there were no zoom-in or zoom-out capabilities at that time) that he blistered his nose on the hot lights. Phil always tried new images: still photographs, other pictures painted on glass, a hand holding a pair of pliers,and finally a motion picture using an old projector and a sixteen minute movie of a hockey game. This was TV's firstsports show. At this time Phil was only twenty. Even though Farnsworth was considered the boy wonder of television,Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was not about to take his developments just lying down. RCA wantedtelevision patents sos their attorneys fought Farnsworth's patent applications, but platoons of lawyers could not shakePhil. In August 1930 Farnsworth, who was now twenty-four, received his own television patents. Later, after morefighting, Farnsworth won and got his own patents. His patents were the only ones RCA ever had to buy. It is said thatthe RCA attorney had tears in his eyes when he bought Farnsworth's patents. Television was presented at the 1939 World's Fair which was held in Queens, New York(Appendix M). Itwas demonstrated to the public by RCA and Phil recieved no credit. During the decade of the 1930s when he wasperfecting television he created more inventions that led him to new discoveries. These included the electronicmicroscope, the baby incubator, and a ...
