Maude Adams was a leading Broadway actress from 1900 through the 1920s. She was well known for her work in the play "Peter Pan." Her dream was to make a color film of the play, and since the technology was insufficiently advanced for indoor color photography, she set about to develop the proper technology. Even though she succeeded in developing interior lamps for color photography, her film was never realized. Birthplace: Salt Lake City.
Fascinated by firearms, John Moses Browning invented all manner of pistols and automatic rifles. The U.S. Army adopted his machine gun, and other countries have added Browning weapons to their arsenals. Birthplace: Ogden.
One of the pioneers of television technology, Philo Farnsworth developed an electronic image dissector. RCA licensed this invention and combined it with their own ideas to implement televised entertainment. Birthplace: Beaver.
The Osmonds were a popular singing group during the Sixties and Seventies that consisted solely of family members. They had their own television variety show, and recorded a number of hit songs. In later years, Donny and Marie Osmond went out on their own as a duet, and eventually, they both pursued solo singing careers. Birthplace: Ogden.
Leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or the Mormons, Brigham Young took his followers west to find a place to practice their religion. They chose the area now known as Utah. Young was a federal representative of the area, until a conflict arose between the Mormon religion and federal governmental policy. The Mormon religion has the most followers in the state today. Birthplace: Whittingham, Vermont.
