STORY OF THE BOY WHO INVENTED TELEVISION
Steve Blaising’s interview continued…
WN: Could you tell us more about Philo Farnsworth, what kind of a man was he?
Steve: Phil was a prince of guy, especially as a boss, he was humble, and devout; a man of God, but yet human too; some thought he smoked and drank too much, but never was alcohol present on the job, or was he ever under-the-influence of it in public! Phil made no secret about where his ideas came from, he said, “God gives me these ideas in His time and order; all good ideas come from Him; my life is, but a guided tour.” And, that philosophy was the very bone of contention between him the only man I ever saw ordered from his office. The man was a college professor who asked Phil, “Where do your ideas come from?” Phil said, “They come from God,” and the professor said, “Oh come now, I’m atheist and you don’t expect me to believe that God stuff do you?” Phil jumped up and as his eyes bulged, and at the top of his voice, he ordered the man from his office, and off company property! Phil was hard on himself, but patient and soft spoken with us, and I never heard him raise his voice, except the time he threw that atheist out of his office.
WN: After the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) asked Philo, “Where were his neutrons were coming from,” and he said, “The poissor,” you mentioned they (AEC), didn’t believe him?
Steve: Yes, the AEC claimed our neutrons were coming from the outer wall of the stainless steel fusion tube? Some of the so-called experts also squawked about Phil using the word “poissor” to describe his spherical plasma or “star in a jar,” because that word can’t be found in a dictionary, but the word television couldn’t be found in a dictionary either until after he was granted U.S. Patent #1,773,980 on January 7, 1927, for his “television system.” After the AEC questioned Phil about the origin of our neutrons we constructed a test device and set up an experiment to prove where they came from. We constructed the test device by removing a rack and pinion from a microscope and mounting it on the side of the tube just below a quartz-slotted window on the outer shell and then we used the rack and pinion device to move a lead cylinder back and forth that had a tiny hole drilled at its center, with a neutron counter behind the hole. That enabled us to accurately move the counter from off center, to center and then past center. After a star (poissor) was created, we advanced the neutron counter towards the poissor’s center and as it advanced the counter increased, it maximized at its center, and then fell off again as it was moved away from center thus proving where our neutrons were coming from. After repeating the experiment several times and getting the same results that ended the neutron debate with the experts from the AEC.
WN: Once-upon-a-time Orvil Wright said to Wilbur, “Just think, all these secrets (air foil, engine, control surface and propeller technology), have been waiting all these years so we could come along and discover them.”
Steve: Phil once said, “I didn’t invent electrons, and only by God’s guidance, was I allowed to discover some truths about them, but not before countless hours of lab time, and lots of money was spent conducting experiments; we stand on the shoulders of giants.” To be continued…
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