Title: The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
Author: Kathleen Krull (illustrated by Greg Couch)
About the Author: Krull attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. After graduating she began her career in children’s publishing. She was a children’s book editor. She wrote mysteries prior to writing her own books for young people. She enjoys exploring subjects that she is passionate about. One fun fact about Kathleen Krull is that she was fired from her part-time job at a library when she was fifteen because she was reading too much instead of working!
Age Level: 5-8
Synopsis: 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.
Theme(s): biography, inventors, television America in the 20th century, history
How it can be used in the elementary classroom: This book could be used when studying biographies. It could also be used for a research project. This would be a great book to explore America in the 20th century and the history of America. It would be a great book to research how television was invented. This would be a great book to integrate into a unit about American Inventors.
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