Elma Gardner “Pem” Farnsworth, 98, who helped her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, develop the television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV, died April 27 of natural ...

The image was blurry and tiny, her eyes were closed, but there she was: the first woman on television. The date was Oct. 19, 1929, the location was 202 Green St. in San Francisco, and the woman was ...

Elma Farnsworth, who died Thursday at 97, was the wife and main assistant to Philo Farnsworth, the man generally credited with the invention of television. The invention came in 1927, when Elma, ...

In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether it's cars, robots, personal gadgetry or industrial machines, Candace Lombardi examines the moving parts that keep our ...

May 2, 2006 As extraordinary as it may seem, one of the people who created the first television died last week when Elma G. "Pem" Farnsworth, author of the Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery on the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth, who helped her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, develop the television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV, has died at age ...

Even Hollywood’s brightest scribes couldn’t have conceived a story more amazing and inspiring than Philo T. Farnsworth’s. A deeply religious farm boy, he arrives at the idea for transmitting sound and ...

Bountiful, Utah — Elma G. “Pem” Farnsworth, wife of Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, died last Thursday, here, at the age of 98. Born Feb. 25, 1908, in Jenson, Utah, ...

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