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Author: Edwin Brit Wyckoff Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC ISBN: 146461122X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is best known for inventing the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public.
Author: Edwin Brit Wyckoff Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC ISBN: 146461122X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 50
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is best known for inventing the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public.
Author: Kathleen Krull Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781627655750 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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"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."
Author: Paul Schatzkin Publisher: Teamcom Books ISBN: 9781928791300 Category : Electrical engineers Languages : en Pages : 300
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While the great minds of science, financed by the biggest companies in the world, wrestled with 19th century answers to a 20th century problem, Philo T. Farnsworth, age 14, dreamed of trapping light in an empty jar and transmitting it, one line at a time, on a magnetically deflected beam of electrons. Farnsworth was a farm boy from Rigby, Idaho, with virtually no knowledge of electronics when he first sketched his idea for electronic television on a blackboard for his high school science teacher. Fifteen years later, his teacher would recreate that sketch as part of his testimony in patent litigation between Farnsworth and the giant Radio Corporation of America. In 1930, Farnsworth was awarded the fundamental patents for modern television; but he had to spend the next decade fighting off challenges to his patents by the giant Radio Corporation of America and defending his vision against his own shortsighted investors who did not share his larger dream of scientific independence. The Boy Who Invented Television traces Farnsworth's guided tour of discovery, describing the observations he made in the course of developing and improving his initial invention and revealing how his unique insights brought him to the threshold of what could have been an even greater discovery -- clean, safe, and unlimited energy from controlled nuclear fusion. - Publisher.
Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ISBN: 9781575050171 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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A biography of the persistent experimenter whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.
Author: Evan I. Schwartz Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061856142 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 530
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“...Fascinating... A riveting American classic of independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. I found it more fun than fiction.” — James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers “... The fascinating inside story of how this eccentric loner invented television and fought corporate America.” — Walter Isaacson, chariman, CNN “...Compelling...Strong, dramatic prose...” — Kirkus Reviews “...A lively and engaging account.” — Library Journal “[A] gripping and eminently readable saga of the birth of television and the death of the Edisonian myth.” — Darwin magazine
Author: Aaron Sorkin Publisher: ISBN: 9780573662867 Category : Inventions Languages : en Pages : 101
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"It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." ... Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Bob Greenlee Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449074561 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 388
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John Logie Baird is someone whose name is virtually unknown to most Americans. He was a gifted Scotsman who managed to perfect the world's first working television system.
Author: Donald G. Godfrey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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At ITT he worked on what he called his "Buck Rodgers" Cold War defense projects and a new energy system called fusion." "Although at one time every television set utilized at least six of his basic patents, Farnsworth realized few financial rewards. The Depression, endless legal wrangling with RCA over patent rights, and World War II all worked against him in one way or another."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Albert Abramson Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786432438 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 319
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Albert Abramson published (with McFarland) in 1987 a landmark volume titled The History of Television, 1880-1941 ("massive...research"--Library Journal; "voluminous documentation"--Choice; "many striking old photos"--The TV Collector). At last he has produced the follow-up volume; the reader may be assured there is no other book in any language that is remotely comparable to it. Together, these two volumes provide the definitive technical history of the medium. Upon the development in the mid-1940s of new cameras and picture tubes that made commercial television possible worldwide, the medium rose rapidly to prominence. Perhaps even more important was the invention of the video tape recorder in 1956, allowing editing, re-shooting and rebroadcasting. This second volume, 1942 to 2000 covers these significant developments and much more. Chapters are devoted to television during World War II and the postwar era, the development of color television, Ampex Corporation's contributions, television in Europe, the change from helical to high band technology, solid state cameras, the television coverage of Apollo II, the rise of electronic journalism, television entering the studios, the introduction of the camcorder, the demise of RCA at the hands of GE, the domination of Sony and Matsushita, and the future of television in e-cinema and the 1080 P24 format. The book is heavily illustrated (as is the first volume).
Author: Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Author: Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Author: Kathleen Krull
Author: Mary Kay Carson
Author: Paul Schatzkin
Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Author: Evan I. Schwartz
Author: Aaron Sorkin
Author: Bob Greenlee
Author: Donald G. Godfrey
Author: Albert Abramson