Grades 2-5
This is the story, as the title indicates, of the boy who invented TV, Philo Farnsworth. As a child, Philo, loved everything mechanical and worked really hard studying science. His heroes were Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, the inventors of the telephone and phonograph. He struggled with bullies in school for loving to play the violin. He knew he would have to get an education to be able to work on his dream of a television. But he had to quit after only one year of college because his father died. After much talking, 2 buisnessmen put up some money to fund the first working model of the television and gave him a deadline of one year. Philo worked around the clock but after one year, he had to find new investors. Finally, in 1927, he was able to finish the project. The image was no fancy, but he was able to show a dolar sign, and then the motion of cigarette smoke. The following year, the invention of the television was annouced.
This is a very long book. The pages have lots of words on them. This is for an advanced reader or an older child. It could almost be an easy reader or something like that. The pictures are great! But the great thing is the amount of information given. There is an authors note, a list of other books to try, and websites that give more information.
How many hours a week does your child watch TV? Wouldn't be great for them to know how difficult one man had to work to create the TV? Talk to you child about inventions, ask them to imagine what they would want to invent, if they had a chance. Think about how different our lives are with the television.
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