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Obit: Elma Gardner Farnsworth, helped develop TV w/husband, @ 98

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(From the "N-Y Times")Elma Gardner Farnsworth, who helped her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, develop television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV, died Thursday in Bountiful, Utah. She was 98.The Farnsworths married in 1926, and Ms. Farnsworth worked by her husband's side, then fought for decades to assure his place in history after his death in 1971.Other inventors developed precursors of television in the 1920's, including mechanical transmission of images, but it was Mr. Farnsworth's work that led to the electronic television we know today.Read more at:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/arts/television/03farnsworth.html?_r=1&oref=slogin(Free registration may be required to read the above article.)
 
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