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Philo T. Farnsworth Statue

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Statue of Philo T. Farnsworth

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On the grounds of Letterman Digital Arts Center, a statue of Philo T. Farnsworth, a television pioneer who developed, among other things, an imaging tube for television systems. Farnsworth invented the image dissector and transmitted his first image from his Green Street facility in San Francisco.

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