Just blew in...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

There were quite a few people working toward it, none of them were ever credited with its invention and they didn't make any money from it.

You should check out that link I posted shbaz, physlink is quite respectable when it comes down to factual information, and you can find out a lot about Farnsworth online.  Here is an article in TIME online about him as well:

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html

Philo Farnsworth never really made a lot of money from his invention (thanks to RCA), but it's pretty safe to say that his design was the standard that televisions were built on, not Zworykin's, etc (Zworykin's didn't even work properly anyway).

[Pumaman]

I don't know... I hate England as much as the next man, but as a non-drinker, non-smoker, non-luxury-item-enjoying second-hand-clothes-purchasing student the taxes don't bother me that much.

I take it I can add non-driver to that list, too 

Having said that, taxes don't bother you too much as a student, I guess ... it's when you start working full time and find out just how much of your money ends up going to the government that it gets depressing 

Hah. Read Stupid White Men by Michael Moore if you think you'd be better off living in the US...

But I think you're forgetting something:

[AGA]

I'm not forgetting how to spell 'Michael' though...

[Pumaman]

Think yourself lucky, birthday boy ... any other day of the year there'd be a cutting, witty insult coming your way

[shbaz]

Bah, my point is more that America can hardly be dumbed down to only inventing the Nuke, and Scotland being the land of innovation. It's a logical fallacy. I'm perfectly aware that other countries have significant inventions.

[Eggie]

America was the first country to capitalise on animation.
BAM!!