H e formed the Eccles-Browning Affiliated Banks and Organized the First Security Corporation to control and manage 17 banks. Eccles became the head of the Federal Reserves in 1935. He helped draft the Emergency Banking Act and the Federal Housing Act. He spoke to business groups and appeared on National television talk shows. Eccles was the leading banker in the Intermountain West.
H e is a world class skier that added to Utahs skiing industry.
He was the National downhill and slalom champion. Engen coached the United States Olympic ski team in 1948. H e was fascinated with electricity, by the time he was 15 years old he developed a theory of electronic transmission of pictures. In 1927 Farnsworth patented and produced the first working, all electronic television system. Farnsworth has the legal right and patent for the invention of the television.