The Boy Who Invented TV - by Kathleen Krull (Hardcover)

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Description

Number of Pages: 40
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Sub-Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 9-12 Years
Book theme: Science & Technology
Author: Kathleen Krull
Language: English

About the Book

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. Includes an Afterword by the author. Full color.

Book Synopsis

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 science teacher testified that Philo's invention of television was years before RCA's.

Review Quotes

Starred Review, School Library Journal, September 2009:
One to inspire young audiences with the vast possibilities that imagination and diligence can accomplish.

The New York Times Book Review, December 20, 2009:
Beautiful and beautifully told, the book tracks like the sort of graphic novel that breaks your heart, with its implied passage of time and slipping awawy of early dreams.

About the Author

Kathleen Krull is the author of a number of highly praised picture-book biographies. She lives in San Diego, California.

Greg Couch is the illustrator of Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson and many other picture books. He lives in Nyack, New York.