November 21 . United Nations first proclaimed the date in 1996. Philo Farnsworth Many people credit Philo Farnsworth with the invention of the TV. He filed a patent for the first completely electronic TV set in 1927 He called it the Image Dissector. Another inventor, Vladimir Zworykin , built an improved system two years later. The first "television" system broadcast was a straight-line by Philo Farnsworth on September 7th, 1927 . The press was presented with this scientific breakthrough on January 13, 1928 and it even headlined a few major nationwide papers.
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