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The boy who invented television : a story of inspiration, persistance, and quiet passion / Paul Schatzkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Silver Spring, MD : TeamCom Books, c2002.Description: 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1928791301
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.388/0092 B 21
Summary: Tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, discussing how he came up with the seeds of the idea at the age of fourteen, and successfully demonstrated his work at twenty-one, and looking at how close he came, as an employee of ITT, to harnessing nuclear fusion.
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Biography-Adult/Teen MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult N- Biography (Adult/Teen) BIO Farnsworth (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 400725

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index.

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Tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, discussing how he came up with the seeds of the idea at the age of fourteen, and successfully demonstrated his work at twenty-one, and looking at how close he came, as an employee of ITT, to harnessing nuclear fusion.

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