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American Experience
Season 9 · Episode 6
Big Dream, Small Screen
0.055mFebruary 10, 1997
The little known story of Philo T. Farnsworth, a Utah farm boy who first sketched out his idea for electronic television at the age of fourteen. An eccentric genius, Farnsworth spent years battling corporate giants to receive acknowledgment for his invention.
Episodes
- Episode 1T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (1): The Long Campaign
- Episode 2T.R.: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (2): The Bully Pulpit
- Episode 3The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
- Episode 4Hawaii's Last Queen
- Episode 5The Telephone
- Episode 6Big Dream, Small Screen
- Episode 7New York Underground
- Episode 8Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern