The Last Lone Inventor
A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
Our rough guess is there are 84,000 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 5 hours and 36 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 11 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7293311M
- ISBN-139780066210698
- ISBN-100066210690
- OCLC Control Number48449928
- Internet Archivelastloneinventor0000schw
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001051735
- LibraryThing360157
- Goodreads531174
Classifications
- LCCTK6635.F3 S38 2002
- LCCTK6635.F3S38 2002
Description
"In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Schwartz tells a tale of genius and greed, innocence and deceit, and corporate arrogance versus independent brilliance. In other words, the very qualities that have made this country - for better or for worse - what it is." "Many men have laid claim to the title "the father of television," but Philo T. Farnsworth is the true genius behind what may be the most influential invention of our time. Farnsworth may have ended up a footnote in history, yet he was the first to demonstrate an electronic process for scanning, transmitting, and receiving moving images, a discovery that changed the way we live."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
FROM CLEAR ACROSS THE POTATO FIELD, LEWIS FARNSWORTH COULD see that his son was in danger.
Subjects
Topics
People
Other Editions
- The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
Show 5 more editions
Similar Books
My inventions: the autobiography of Nikola Tesla
edited, with an introduction, by Ben Johnston.
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Randall E. Stross
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
introduction by Lewis Leary.
Wizard : The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
Marc Seifer
Tesla: Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!