{"product_id":"the-damned-thing-works-daniel-voss-9798184883205","title":"The Damned Thing Works: Philo Farnsworth, David Sarnoff, and the Eleven-Year War That Built the Living Room","description":"\u003cb\u003eHe did not come from a laboratory. He came from a potato field.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Idaho in 1921, a teenage farm boy named Philo Farnsworth looked at the parallel furrows behind his plow and saw a way to send moving pictures through the air. With no money, no institutional backing, and only Pem-his future wife-to believe in him without laughing, he began building the system that would become electronic television. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree thousand miles east, David Sarnoff was turning RCA into the most powerful electronics corporation in America. When he saw what the farm boy had invented, the fight for television's future-and credit-was on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE DAMNED THING WORKS\u003c\/b\u003e follows the eleven-year war between the young inventor and the mogul: the patents, laboratories, courtroom battle, and the woman who preserved the record when the industry tried to rewrite it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA narrative history of invention, ambition, and the fight over who gets remembered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Voss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184883205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Daniel Voss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174087598335,"sku":"9798184883205","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-damned-thing-works-daniel-voss-9798184883205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}