Plowing a potato field in 1920, a fourteen-year-old farm boy had a brainstorm. He saw in the parallel rows of overturned earth a way to "make pictures fly through the air." And just eight years later, he made his idea a reality when he transmitted the world's first television image. This boy was not a magician; he was a scientific genius.

Kathleen Krull's lively text tells the little-known story of how Philo Farnsworth's childhood obsession with machines and electricity led to one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century, an invention he hoped would inform and bring closer together all of humanity. Greg Couch's inspired illustrations add an irresistible invitation to budding young scientists.

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