The Legacy of Martha Hughes Cannon

Guest: Janiece Johnson, Historian, Maxwell Institute of Religion, BYU Right now in the US Capitol Building, there’s a statue of Philo T. Farnsworth – the Utah-born inventor of the television. For 40 years he’s been one of Utah’s contributions to the National Statuary Hall Collection, but soon he’ll be replaced by a different statue. The Utah Legislature has decided that Martha Hughes Cannon is a more deserving of the honor. What did she invent that’s better than TV, you ask?