August 19 Birthday: The Boy Who Invented TV, Philo Farnsworth

Philo Farnsworth, inventor
b. August 19, 1906
d. March 11, 1971
THE BOY WHO INVENTED TV (Random House, 2014)
illustrated by Greg Couch
Overview
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.