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- [Announcer] This Indiana
Bicentennial Minute

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is made possible by the
Indiana Historical Society

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and the law firm of Krieg DeVault.

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- [Narrator] If you're
watching television,

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you can thank the
inventor Philo Farnsworth,

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and the work he did in
Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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In 1939, Farnsworth began mass producing

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television transmitters,
receivers, TV cameras,

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and radios at his Farnsworth Radio

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and Television Corporation in Fort Wayne.

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RCA paid Farnsworth a million
dollars for his invention

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of electronic television,

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but he continued to manufacture
in Fort Wayne until 1951,

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when he sold his company

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to International Telephone and Telegraph.

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There he developed the forerunner

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of today's air traffic control systems.

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Farnsworth lived in his home
in Fort Wayne until 1967

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and died in 1971, the
father of television.

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- [Announcer] This Indiana
Bicentennial Minute

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is made possible by the
Indiana Historical Society

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and the law firm of Krieg DeVault.