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English: Plaque on Green Street in San Francisco dedicated to Philo Farnsworth.
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Camera location37° 48′ 01.33″ N, 122° 24′ 09.04″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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FARNSWORTH'S GREEN STREET LAB

IN A SIMPLE LABORATORY ON THIS SITE, 202 GREEN STREET,

PHILO TAYLOR FARNSWORTH, U.S. PIONEER IN ELECTRONICS,

INVENTED AND PATENTED THE FIRST OPERATIONAL ALL-

ELECTRONIC TELEVISION SYSTEM ON SEPTEMBER 7 1927. THE

21-YEAR-OLD INVENTOR AND SEVERAL DEDICATED ASSIST-

ANTS SUCCESSFULLY TRANSMITTED THE FIRST ALL-ELEC-

TRONIC TELEVISION IMAGE, THE MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH

THAT BROUGHT THE PRACTICAL FORM OF THIS INVENTION

TO MANKIND. FURTHER PATENTS FORMULATED HERE COVERED

THE BASIC CONCEPTS ESSENTIAL TO MODERN TELEVISION.

THE GENIUS OF GREEN STREET, AS HE WAS KNOWN, DIED IN 1971.

CALIFORNIA REGISTERED HISTORICAL LANDMARK NO. 941

PLAQUE PLACED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS

AND RECREATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE PHILO

FRANSWORTH FOUNDATION, INC., SEPTEMBER 15 1981.

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