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Schwartz, Evan I.

The last lone inventor : a tale of genius, deceit, and the birth of television / Evan I. Schwartz. - 1st ed. - New York : HarperCollins, c2002. - x, 322 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Author's Note -- Prologue: A Miscalculation -- 1. Fields of Vision -- 2. Making a Great Man -- 3. Community Chest -- 4. Patently Brilliant -- 5. Going Hollywood -- 6. Networking -- 7. Life on Green Street -- 8. Confrontation -- 9. End Run -- 10. Who Owns What? -- 11. Narrow Escape -- 12. All's Fair, World's Fair -- 13. Breakdown, Breakout -- 14. Post War -- Epilogue: Perceptions and Reality -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN: 0066210690 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2001051735

Subjects--Personal Names:
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Television--Biography.
Inventors--United States--Biography.
Electrical engineers--United States--Biography.
Television--History.

LC Class. No.: TK6635.F3 / S38 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 621.3880092 / SCH