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Boy Who Invented TV The Story of Philo Farnsworth

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ISBN-10: 0375845615

ISBN-13: 9780375845611

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kathleen Krull, Greg Couch

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An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned earth a way to "make pictures fly through the air." This boy was not a magician; he was a scientific genius and just eight years later he made his brainstorm in the potato field a reality by transmitting the world's first television image. This fascinating picture-book biography of Philo Farnsworth covers his early interest in machines and electricity, leading up to how he put it all together in one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. The author's afterword discusses the lawsuit Farnsworth waged and won against RCA when his high school…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Size: 8.89" wide x 11.25" long x 0.33" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Kathleen Krull is the author of Fartiste (with Paul Brewer), illustrated by Boris Kulikov, A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull, illustrated by Jane Dyer, and Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought), illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt, as well as a number of other acclaimed biographies for young readers. She lives in San Diego, California.