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ANDY ANDREWS kindness toward the animals.”
Editor There are chapters devoted to
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Triumpho. Sunnyside ence in New Zealand and Wales.
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(the first was NO RICHER THE BOY WHO INVENTED
GIFT), WAIT’TIL THE COWS Ridumi Tnmnpho TELEVISION, by Paul
COMEHOME. , Schatzkin. Team Com
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the National Holstein Conven- $16.95. ISBN
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kin or a Mormon farm boy, as the
book indicates, by the name of
Philo T. Farnsworth.
This book insists it was the
farm boy-turned-inventor, who
created television in a laboratory
in San Francisco on Sept. 7,1927,
and this is the 7Sth anniversary
of that invention.
As a 14-year-old, Philo, in the
summer of 1921, was strapped to
a horse-drawn disc-harrow, culti
vating a potato field row by row,
“turning the soil and dreaming
about television to relieve the mo
notony,” according to THE BOY.
“As the open summer sun blazed
down on him, he stopped for a
moment and turned around to
survey the afternoon’s work. In
one vivid moment, everything he
had been thinking about and
studying synthesized in novel
way, and a daring idea crystal
lized in this boy’s brain. As he
surveyed the field he had plowed
one row at a time, he suddenly
imagined trapping light in an
empty jar and transmitting it one
line at a time on a magnetically
deflected beam of electrons”
(page 17).
Zworykin, however, according
to the book, basically applied for
a patent in 1923 for an idea that
could have amounted to televi
sion had it worked. A patent
interference ruling in 1934, how
ever, noted the device was “inop
erative.” Zworykin actually may
have gotten his ideas for farther
success with television from a
meeting with Farnsworth. The
book makes them at least co-in
ventors: yet the patent #1,773,980
was issued in August 1930 for
Farnsworth’s successful work.
Farnsworth had even grander
ideas about other inventions, too,
that could radically change the
world. They include an idea for
controlled fusion. “As the con
cept of electronic television had
arrived on a potato field in the
summer of 1921, a practical ap
proach to fusion energy arrived
in a ’49 Cadillac on a Great
Plains highway, somewhere be
tween Indiana and Utah, in the
summer of 1953” (page 214).
Schatzkin has made it a life
time venture, studying the fa
mous inventor, and interviewed
family and associates to create
this book. While I like to see
more about the personality of fa
mous inventors in a biography.
msmmm
this book took 25 years to finish,
and is a great testament to a ge
nius. Schatzkin notes that as the
75th anniversary of the first TV
transmission approaches, he
hopes that “this voluihe, and all
the years that have gone into its
making, will add some texture
and meaning to that celebration.”
Order from Team Com Books,
3103 Fairland Rd., Silver Spring,
MD 20904, (301) 847-7600, or on
the Web, www.TeamComßook
s.com.
THE LOG HOME BOOK, by
Cindy Teipner-Thiede and
Arthur Thiede, with photo
graphs by Jonathan Stoke
and Cindy Teipner-Thiede.
Gibbs Smith Publisher,
1993, 222 pp., $29.95.
ISBN 0-87905-671-1
Log homes are always in fash
ion, it seems, and you haven't
seen them all until you’ve read
THE LOG HOME BOOK, which
has undergone a few printings al
ready.
The book itself, chockfull of
four-color photographs of custom
log homes throughout the coun
try, makes an excellent coffee
table book in its own right. Visi
tors can page through this to see
the latest.
These houses are exquisite. I
didn’t think it possible to live this
good. Good living can be done
without two-by-four frame con
struction, and artists can be im
bued with all sorts of muse and
inspiration. The book cfetails
houses from East to West and
shows how regions can incorpo
rate lore into their design. Not
only houses, but interior decorat
ing techniques are a big highlight
of this beautiful book.
Order from Gibbs Smith, P.O.
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