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Krull, Kathleen.
THE BOY WHO INVENTED TV : THE STORY OF PHILO FARNSWORTH
New York : Knopf, 2009
IL 3-6, RL 5.5
ISBN 037594561X
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 Can you imagine life without television?  Most of you probably can't even imagine television without hundreds of channels.  But a hundred years ago, there was no television.  There wasn't even radio.  Or movies!  Imagine if you can.  But one boy was going to change all that.  Philo Farnsworth was a curious little boy and was fascinated by the many inventions that were being introduced.  When he was 11, he came up with the idea of an electric light machine -- television.  Just an idea then but it was the beginning of his quest to bring us this amazing light machine.
SUBJECTS:     Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971.
                        Inventors.
                        Television -- History.
                        Picture books for children.

 
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