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So, you might be asking yourself, who in the heck is Elma Farnsworth and why should I care about her? Well, let's just say that if it weren't for Elma and her inventor husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, you might not be reading this blog right now. The couple helped to develop the television as we know it today. While early televisions were black and white, the actual history of the television isn't quite as much so. The Farnsworths are often credited with inventing television, but they really did what most inventors do, which is improve on designs that were already in existence, or had been tested by other inventors. History also acknowledges Elma as the first woman on television, as her image was transmitted on a three-inch screen for the first time in 1929. She passed away Thursday at the age of 98.