Tells the story of Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television, discussing how he came up with the seeds of the idea at the age of fourteen, and successfully demonstrated his work at twenty-one, and looking at how close he came, as an employee of ITT, to harnessing nuclear fusion.
year: 2002
call number/section: 920
subjects: farnsworth, philo taylor, 1906-1971, inventors, united states, biography, electrical engineers, television, history