[NJARC] Elma Farnsworth

[john ruccolo]

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- 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 98. 

Her death Thursday was confirmed by Mary Rippley,
assistant director of nursing at Avalon Care Center in
Bountiful, where Farnsworth lived. 

Farnsworth, who married the young inventor in 1926,
worked by her husband's side in his laboratories and
fought for decades to assure his place in history
after his 1971 death. 

Other inventors had demonstrated various developments
in the 1920s, including mechanical transmission of
images, but it was Farnsworth's work that led to the
electronic TV we know today. 

His first TV transmission was on September 7, 1927, in
his San Francisco lab, when the 21-year-old inventor
sent the image of a horizontal line to a receiver in
the next room.


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