They moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then to Salt Lake City, where Brigham Young University gave Farnsworth an underground bunker lab to pursue his research in nuclear fusion. Crippling depression and ailments plagued Farnsworth for the rest of his life, and he died of pneumonia on March 11, 1971. By the time of his death at age sixty-four, he’d been awarded three hundred U.S. and foreign patents that led to advances in electron microscopes, radar, peaceful uses of atomic energy, and air-traffic control.
