In 1921, a 14-year-old Idaho farm boy looked at the rows in a potato field and imagined television: How Philo Farnsworth turned a plowed field into a world-changing invention

In 1921, a 14-year-old boy walking behind a horse in a potato field in Idaho had an idea that would eventually help transform how the world watched moving images. His name was Philo T. Farnsworth, and the inspiration came from something remarkably ordinary. The idea came from the parallel rows being carved into the soil by a farm harrow, according to a report in Science Blog.

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