Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born August 19, 1906 in a log cabin near Beaver, Utah. At an early age, he became familiar with the various components of the telephone and the gramaphone. By age 12, he had a thorough understanding of electronics. In 1922, at age 15, while living in Rigby, Idaho, he developed the concept of the electronic transmission of images and drew mathematical diagrams showing how this could be done. In 1927, in San Francisco, California, after inventing and developing numerous vacuum tubes, including the image dissector, he was able to transmit and receive a recognizable image. In 1934, after demonstrating that his ideas of electronic image transmission were the first to be written down, he was issued patents regarding television methods still used in every television receiving set, television camera, and transmitter manufactured in the United States and abroad. He was issued over 170 patents regarding electronic inventions, most designed for television. In addition, he developed the first electron microscope, baby incubator, and medical gastroscope. He pioneered electronic infrared surveillance scopes used in World War Two and ever since. He developed memory vacuum tubes for radar screens, air traffic control, and underwater sonar devices. At the time of his death, he had developed cold cathode-ray tubes used in the television and computer industries and was working in cold nuclear fusion. Philo T. Farnswroth, "The Father of Television," died March 14, 1971, in Holliday, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.