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TV inventor's widow dies at age 97

Elma “Pem” Farnsworth, the wife of television inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, died Thursday in Bountiful, Utah, at age 97. Mrs. Farnsworth was on hand in San Francisco the night television was first demonstrated. Her image was one of the first transmitted by a cathode-ray tube, invented by her husband, who died in 1971.

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