After the invention of radio, in the 1890`s, there was a race to get pictures to go along with it, the television. Several different people in different places were all working on it simultaneously. It was in September 1927 that 21 year old Philo Farnsworth was able to show off his new invention, from this location at 200 Green Street in San Francisco. And that from someone who grew up in a house without electricity.