Google won't save you #74 - Philo Farnsworth

[brewizard]

I've been wanting to do this one for a while. Does anybody know who this guy is? http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5167/tomjames8x10cf8.gif

[Patrick425]

Anthony Michael Hall's grandfather

[And That]

John Dillinger?

[Samurai Bucky]

Willem DaFoe

[aracko]

Ben Token

[brewizard]

Anthony Michael Hall's grandfather is hilarious. But no. HINT: So he didn't pitch for the Brewers, but what he did has huge implications for the team finances.

[Fatter than Joey]

He invented stadium sauce and the racing sausages?

[Teatoe993]

Mr. Miller?

[Patrick425]

Johnny Retractable

[craigharmann]

Don't you know that's Bob Uecker as a young man??

[Patrick425]

One of my thoughts was Curt Flood's attorney - Arthur Goldberg. But I'm pretty sure that's not him.

[DatHoser]

Peter Seitz?

[trwi7]

Mr. That's one awesome cowlick?

[brewizard]

HINT: What he did affects EVERY team's finances. Dramatically.

[pogokat]

alan greenspan, like 100 years ago?

[zingsheim]

Jaws from the James Bond Movies.

[gypcasino]

World B Free Agent

[bigredrobbo]

George Orwell?

 

Big Brother is watching...

[aracko]

Guy De Rothschild.

[brewizard]

HINT: There's a statue of this guy in the National Capitol. He musta done something of value, eh?

[Patrick425]

William O. Douglass?

[Patrick425]

Ahhhhh...Philo T. Farnsworth...the T.V. Guy!

[brewizard]

You are correct, sir! Without the TV contracts, even if they are the worst in the league, the Brewers would not be able to pay much for the players! And, of course, you'd still be listening to your Brewers games. Everybody knows who invented the lightbulb, but hardly anybody knows anything about Philo T. Farnsworth.

"Philo began laying out his vision for what television could become. Above all else... television would become the world's greatest teaching tool. Illiteracy would be wiped out. The immediacy of television was the key. As news happened viewers would watch it unfold live; no longer would we have to rely on people interpreting and distorting the news for us. We would be watching sporting events and symphony orchestras. Instead of going to the movies, the movies would come to us. Television would also bring about world peace. If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past." -Evan I. Schwartz, The Last Lone Inventor, about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television

and, of course,

"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet." - Philo Farnsworth, describing TV to his son

[mothershipconnection]

Above all else... television would become the world's greatest teaching tool. Illiteracy would be wiped out. The immediacy of television was the key

 

Funny that we thought the same about the internet, yet it led to AOL Speak, online diploma mills, and more porno.

[InsomniacInkRoss]

I miss a few days of post and I miss PHILO T. FARNSWORTH!

 

I am pissed, worked in TV 8 years, i woulda nailed this, NAILED it!

 

He got inspired for the television scanning system by looking at cornfields