In the early years of television, Vladimir Zworykin
was, at least in the public sphere, recognized as its inventor.
His loudest champion was his boss, David Sarnoff, then
president of RCA and a man that we regard even today as
"the father of television." Current historians agree, however,
that Philo Farnsworth, a self-educated prodigy who
was the first to transmit live images, was television's true
inventor.