Pioneers of Television highlights some of the medium’s visionaries, but it could have been done better.
In this age of 500-channel cable, satellite and HD TV, it's easy to forget that television itself is just over eighty years old. Originally invented by Philo Farnsworth in 1927, television took more than twenty years to become a staple in American homes. In 1945 there were fewer than 7,000 working television sets in the country and only nine…