Daydreaming in the fields might just lead to the next great invention. It did for this young farm boy, who invented the television.

Although some credit the invention of the television to Scottish inventor, John Logie Baird, whereas Baird's TV was mechanical, Philo Taylor Farnsworth patented the first completely electronic TV system. He was only 14 when he came up with the idea while working on his family's farm, and by the time he passed away, he held 300 TV-related patents. According to family, the straight lines of the plowed fields actually inspired Farnsworth to break up the image into horizontal lines, reassembling them using only electrons.

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