Television : an international history of the formative years
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Bibliographic Information
Television : an international history of the formative years
(History of technology series, 22)
Institution of Electrical Engineers, c1998
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  Yamagata
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"The Institution of Electrical Engineers in association with the Science Museum" -- Cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
From the first notions of 'seeing by electricity' in 1878, through the period of the first demonstration of rudimentary television in 1926 and up to 1940, when war brought the advance of the technology to a temporary halt, the development of television gathered about it a tremendous history. Following the discovery of the photo-conductive effect, numerous schemes for television were suggested but it was in the wake of Baird's early demonstrations that real industrial interest developed and the pace of progress increased. Much research and development work was undertaken in the UK, the US, Germany and France. By 1936 television technology had advanced to the point where high definition broadcasting was realistic.
This meticulous and deeply researched book presents a balanced and thorough international history of television from 1878 to 1940, considering the factors - technical, commercial and social - that influenced and led to the establishment of public services in many countries. Highly illustrated throughout, this is a major book in the study of history of science, technology and media.
Table of Contents
Part I: The era of speculation, 1877 to c. 1922
Chapter 1: Images and society (c. 16th Century to c. mid-19th Century)
Chapter 2: Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843-c. 1900)
Chapter 3: Seeing by electricity, the earliest notions (1878-1880)
Chapter 4: Persistence of vision and moving images (1825-c. 1900)
Chapter 5: Distant vision (1880-1920)
Chapter 6: A possible way forward (1900-1920)
Chapter 7: Developments of importance to television
Part II: The era of low-definition television, 1926 to 1934
Chapter 8: The breakthrough, J.L. Baird and television (the 1920s)
Chapter 9: The approaches of a lone inventor and a chief engineer (the 1920s)
Chapter 10: Excellence in low-definition television (1925-1930)
Chapter 11: German and French developments (the 1920s and early 1930s)
Chapter 12: Some low-definition television broadcasting services, c. 1930
Part III: The era of pre-war and high-definition television, 1934 to 1939
Chapter 13: Large-screen television (1930-1935)
Chapter 14: Between low and high-definition television (1930-1931)
Chapter 15: Early electronic camera tubes, and the work of Farnsworth (c. 1920-1935)
Chapter 16: Zworykin and the kinescope (1923-1930)
Chapter 17: RCA, Sarnoff and television (1919-1932)
Chapter 18: RCA and all-electronic television (1933-1935)
Chapter 19: EMI, Shoenberg and television (1931-1934)
Chapter 20: Progress in the UK and abroad (1934-1935)
Chapter 21: The London station and foreign developments (1935-1938)
Chapter 22: Television in the US (1935-1941)
Chapter 23: The world's first, regular, public, high-definition service (1936-1939)
Appendices
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