While cutting hay, Philo Farnsworth figures out how television could work. It took him several years to get the money to build the first television and send the first television picture using electricity.
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Russell Roberts has written and published books on a variety of subjects, including Ten Days to a Sharper Memory, Discover the Hidden New Jersey, and Stolen! A History of Base Stealing. He also wrote Pedro Menendez de Aviles and Philo T. Farnsworth: The life of Television's Forgotten Inventor for Mitchell Lane. He lives in Bordentown, New Jersey, with his family and a remarkably lazy, yet fiesty calico cat named Rusti.
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One day in 1921, Philo (FY-low) Taylor Farnsworth was cutting hay on a farm. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
One day in 1921, Philo (FY-low) Taylor Farnsworth was cutting hay on a farm. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Story of Television (Cornerstones of Freedom) by Zachary Kent on page 30
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