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The Boy Who Invented Television: A Story of Inspiration, Peristence, and Quiet Passion by Paul Schatzkin - Finally, a book that tells the whole story, from the author who has been telling it for more than 25 years. |
The Perfesser also recommends:
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The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan I. Schwartz - The first "major publisher" account of the Farnsworth story, extensively researched and vividly retold by an accomplished author. |
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Philo T. Farnsworth : The Father of Television - by Donald G. Godfrey - an authoritative, documented biography by the Dean of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Communications at the University of Arizona. |
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Distant Vision : Romance and Discovery on the Invisible Frontier- by Elma G. Farnsworth - If Philo T. Farnsworth was "The Father of Television," then "Pem" Farnsworth rightly deserves to be called "The Mother of Television." Distant Vision is her own lovingly written, first-hand account of her life alongside the brilliant, embattled inventor. |
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TV's Forgotten Hero : The Story of Philo T. Farnsworth by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson - Written for younger readers, McPherson incorporates anecdotes that personalize the precocious youth and inventive adult. A generous supply of photographs punctuates this very readable biography. |
| The Story of Television : The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth - by George Everson - Difficult to find, but worth the effort for any serious Philo-file. The inside story of the earliest days of electronic television, as recounted by the man who "discovered" Farnsworth an provided his initial funding. |
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The American Experience: Big Dream, Small Screen - The first real television movie about the boy who invented it, originally broadcast in 1997. With dramatic re-enactments and many interviews with Farnsworth family members as well as "spokesmen for the oppostiion." |
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Tube : The Invention of Television - by David E. Fisher, Marshall Jon Fisher - An exhaustively researched, accessibly written acount tracing the origins of television all the way back to its mechanical antecedents. |
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Tube of Plenty : The Evolution of American Television - By Erik Barnow, the premier chronicler of American broadcasting; A colorful, eminently readable condensation of his three-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States. |
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Tesla - Master of Lightning - (VHS video) Nikola Tesla was one of Farnsworth's predecessors, and is a cult hero today in his own right. Both inventors drew from a similar well, and both encountered similar fates at the hands of backers and industrialists who could not fully comprehend or appreciate their vision. |
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Empire of the Air:
The Men Who Made Radio (VHS
video) from the PBS Series "Ken Burns' America," Burns'
lends his documentary skills to the absorbing, astounding, true
story of the invention of radio. The narrative revolves around the
epic confrontation beween David Sarnoff of RCA, and Edwin Armstrong,
whose brilliant inventions made radio broadcasting practical. Based
on the book by Tom Lewis (which is really worth the read
if you can find it).
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert Waterman McChesney. Think you're getting the straight story from the corporate media? Think again. |
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