
By Kathleen Krull, Greg Couch (Illustrator)
A farm boy's vision transforms into the first television image, challenging giants.
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In 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho envisions a groundbreaking idea while plowing fields: transmitting images through the air. Eight years later, Philo Farnsworth turns this dream into reality, creating the first television image. As he battles corporate giants to protect his invention, will his vision withstand the test of time? Discover the journey of a young genius who changed the world with his revolutionary idea, and the legal battle that followed, proving his innovation was ahead of its time.
This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held on to his dream to develop television and the scientific concepts behind it.
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