A History of Early Television, Volume 1Stephen Herbert Taylor & Francis, 2004 - 400 pages In the 21st Century, broadcast television is an established part of the lives of many millions of people all over the world, bringing information and entertainment directly into our homes. The pieces in this volume date from 1879 to 1934 and consist of a selection of books, articles and news items relating to the first developmental period of television, before it became the ubiquitous medium that we know today. The selection is English language material only. |
Table des matières
Contents | 7 |
Fantasies and predictions and the first proposals for a practical system | 13 |
Seeing by Telegraph H Trueman Wood in R Brown ed Science for | 26 |
PART 2 | 33 |
Letters John Logie BairdWill Day | 40 |
Selfridges Circular 1925 | 48 |
Items from Science and Invention 1928 | 56 |
Television A Struggle for Power Frank C Waldrop and Joseph Borkin | 59 |
Television broadcast stations 1937 | 143 |
CHAPTER IV | 152 |
Probable Influences of Television on Society David Sarnoff Journal | 157 |
CHAPTER V | 173 |
RESEARCHES WITH THE CATHODERAYS 109 | 191 |
CHAPTER VII | 203 |
CHAPTER VIII | 216 |
CHAPTER IX | 233 |
Trouble in heaven | 80 |
INTRODUCTORY 17 | 85 |
The somnolent cinema | 91 |
PART 3 | 105 |
CHAPTER II | 107 |
Return of a pioneer | 116 |
Amalgamated | 123 |
Public policy | 126 |
CHAPTER III | 141 |
CHAPTER X | 248 |
APPENDIX 172 | 264 |
Items from the early years of Television magazine 192834 | 273 |
George Newnes Ltd 1935 | 313 |
and Dr G A Morton | 339 |
PART 5 | 369 |
The Television Machine in The Modern Handy Book for Boys Jack Bechdolt | 373 |
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