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Teen TV Inventor

  • September 19, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

American inventor Philo Farnsworth built an electric motor at age 12. He was still a teenager when he designed the first all-electronic TV in the early 1920s. He went on to design many other things, including the basics of radar and an infrared telescope.

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