His significant projects in the U. S. include in Chicago and the area: the residential towers of 860 – 880 Lake Shore Dr, the Chicago Federal Center complex, the Farnsworth House, Crown Hall and other structures at IIT ; and the Seagram Building in New York.

Between 1946 and 1951, Mies van der Rohe designed and built the Farnsworth House, a weekend retreat outside Chicago for an independent professional woman, Dr. Edith Farnsworth.

His own practice was based on intensive personal involvement in design efforts to create prototype solutions for building types ( 860 Lake Shore Drive, the Farnsworth House, Seagram Building, S. R. Crown Hall, The New National Gallery ), then allowing his studio designers to develop derivative buildings under his supervision.

* Farnsworth House – Residential Home, Plano, Illinois ( 1946 )

Philip Johnson's Glass House, along with Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, was the subject of Sarah Morris's film ' Points on a Line ' ( 2010 ).

Farnsworth House

Most are owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and operated by other non-profit organizations ( e. g., Farnsworth House ); some are not owned by the Trust but are still operated by the Trust ( e. g., President Lincoln's Cottage ); some are owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation ( e. g., Drayton Hall ); and some are owned and operated by other non-profit organizations and hold a long-term cooperative agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation ( e. g., Lower East Side Tenement Museum ).

* Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois

Crown Hall and the Farnsworth House.

** Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Plano, Illinois

The Farnsworth House, a residence designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1952, received substantial damage through the fracture and failure of one of the house's windows.

* Farnsworth House is completed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Plano, Illinois, USA.

Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth House, 1994.

The Farnsworth House was designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51.

In 1972, Farnsworth House was purchased by British property magnate, art collector, and architectural aficionado Lord Peter Palumbo.

Preservationists and contributors from around the world, including the Friends of the Farnsworth House, began a concerted preservation and fund-raising effort to keep the house on its original site.

Now operated as a house museum, the Farnsworth House is open to the public, with tours conducted by the National Trust.

The Farnsworth House is significant as his first complete realization of this ideal, a prototype for his vision of what modern architecture in an era of technology should be.

The Farnsworth House addresses basic issues about the relationship between the individual and his society.

The Farnsworth House, built on a vast meadow with a variety of trees along the Fox River, is not a structure that lives up to common societal ideals of inhabitable architecture.

As Mies stated on his achievement, “ If you view nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it gains a more profound significance than if viewed from the outside.

That way more is said about nature — it becomes part of a larger whole .” Farnsworth House is the essence of simplicity in the purest form, displaying the ever-changing play of nature.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

) After 1926, Farnsworth Wright paid his contributors at the rate of one cent per word, double the going pulp rate of a half-cent per word ; but during the 1930s, the magazine was sometimes very late in making its payments to authors ( which was not unusual in the pulp field as a whole, at the time ).

The team was known as the Westside Vikings until 1997, and plays its home games at the Henry Turner Memorial Reserve on Farnsworth Avenue right next door to the iconic Flemington Racecourse, within the Footscray Park area, Maribyrnong River and Victoria University.

Examples in film of absent-minded professors include " Doc " Emmett Brown from Back to the Future, the title character in the film The Absent-Minded Professor and its less successful film remakes all based on the short story A Situation of Gravity, by Samuel W. Taylor, as well as Professor Farnsworth of Futurama and Professor Frink in The Simpsons.

Further north, M-91 curves to the northwest around Farnsworth Lake, resuming its due-north course a mile ( 1. 6 km ) to the west.

Farnsworth applied for a patent for his " electron multiplier " on March 3, 1930 and demonstrated its application in 1931.

The station is owned by Local TV LLC, the media arm of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, and its transmitter located on Farnsworth Peak, southwest of Salt Lake City.

The frequency shift also allowed it to move to a more favorable transmitter location on Farnsworth Peak, which eventually also allowed KMGR 95. 7 in Delta to move to 95. 9 and move its transmitter to a location that would reach Utah County.

X96 was the first station in Utah to broadcast with a digital connection to its tower, which is located on Farnsworth Peak.

When Farnsworth goes to the kitchen to make eggs for breakfast, a baby prehistoric bird hatches from its egg and clamps down on Farnsworth's head with his beak.

However, when Farnsworth stole a confidential Navy manual The Service of Information and Security, which contained plans for battle information and tactics that were gathered from field maneuvers and tested by high-ranking naval officers, alarm bells were raised, and the Office of Naval Intelligence ( ONI ) was called upon to investigate its disappearance.

On February 15, 1937, Farnsworth changed his not-guilty plea to nolo contendere, dispensing with a jury trial and leaving the judge to decide on the case ; if the trial had proceeded, the prosecution would have been ready to prove its case by presenting a parade of witnesses and other evidence.

* Farnsworth House: Official site

Richard Farnsworth was terminally ill with bone cancer during the shooting of the film, which had caused the paralysis of his legs as shown in the film.

Although Baird's electromechanical system was eventually displaced by purely electronic systems ( such as those of Vladimir Zworykin, Marconi-EMI and Philo Farnsworth ), Baird's early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earn him a prominent place in television's invention.

Farnsworth himself came to London to Baird's Crystal Palace laboratories in 1936, but was unable to fully solve the problem ; the fire that burned Crystal Palace to the ground later that year further hampered the Baird company's ability to compete.

This interlaced field rate was developed separately by Farnsworth and Zworykin in 1934, and was part of the NTSC television standards mandated by the FCC in 1941.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth ( August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971 ) was an American inventor and television pioneer.

During his acceptance speech he revealed that his high school drama teacher Rawley Farnsworth and former classmate John Gilkerson, two people with whom he was close, were gay.

The company was taken over as one of the divisions in the new Farnsworth Radio and Television Company in 1939.

During elementary school, he was driven by chauffeur to William Penn Charter School, and in high school joined the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia and spent afternoons at the electronics laboratory of television inventor Philo Farnsworth in Chestnut Hill.

The audience continues to see Montgomery as Pendleton, but everyone in the film, including his wife and secretary ( who are astonished to see that the murder was not successful after all ), see and hear Farnsworth.

Farnsworth drew up his first blue-prints of a television while he was a Jefferson County resident.

Davis had erected in a rock on the trail to Bridal Veil Falls a plaque to commemorate Farnsworth, in which was inscribed the words " The Keeper of Stray Ladies ," although Davis did not include her name in the plaque.

Thomas Farnsworth, an English Quaker, was credited with being the first European settler in the Bordentown area in 1682, when he moved his family up river from Burlington.

Philo T. Farnsworth was the inventor of several critical electronic devices that made television possible, including the cathode ray tube.

Rockford was first settled in 1878 by D. C. Farnsworth.

Zoidberg replies to Mom that it was because Farnsworth is his friend, indicating that Zoidberg is in fact poor because he values people more than money.

The film was inspired by Tom Hanks's tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar ( for his role in Philadelphia ), in which he mentioned his high-school drama coach Rawley Farnsworth, and his former classmate John Gilkerson, " two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with ".

Richard W. Farnsworth ( September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000 ) was an American actor and stuntman.

Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to a housewife mother and an engineer father.

What differentiated Farnsworth from other western actors was his gradual transition into acting from stunt work.