The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull

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The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull

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The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull

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.

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Kathleen Krull's grandmother emigrated from county Kerry in Ireland, her grandfather from county Roscommon. She grew up near Chicago, now lives in San Diego, and enjoys visiting Ireland to meet relatives. She is the author of The Book of Rock Stars: 24 Musical Icons that Shine Through History; Gonna Sing My Head Off!; AWoman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull; Pocahontas: Princess of the New World; the Giants of Science series of biographies; and several books illustrated by her husband, Paul Brewer. Please visit her Web site at www.kathleenkrull.com

David McPhail has written and illustrated more than eighty books for children, including the classic Pig Pig series, Water Boy, The Searcher and Old Tree, and Sisters, plus If You Were My Bunny by Kate McMullan, When Sheep Sleep by Laura Numeroff, and Mud Is Cake by Pam Munoz Ryan. Before creating the illustrations for A Pot o' Gold, he did research by traveling throughout Ireland. He lives with his family in New Hampshire.

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ISBN 13 9780375845611
ISBN 10 0375845615
Title The Boy Who Invented TV
Author Kathleen Krull
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Year published 2009-09-08
Number of pages 40
Prizes Winner of NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children 2010, Winner of Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book 2009, Winner of School Library Journal Best Book of the Year 2009, Nominated for Indiana Young Hoosier Master List 2011, Nominated for Kansas William White Award., Nominated for Pennsylvania Keystone State Reading Association Book Award.
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