Tele-visionaries : the people behind the invention of television
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Tele-visionaries : the people behind the invention of television
（IEEE Press understanding science & technology series）
IEEE Press, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163) and index
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Description
This excellent publication provides a historical background of the dream of sight/sound extension by electric means and identification of the major participants is given. The book examines the foremost problem delaying the early progress of television and explores how the development of full colour television by examining the inventions needed to achieve the dream, the people who produced them, the role of the motion picture industry, and more. It offers both a personal historical perspective of the development of television and an overview of the technology, as well as a unique opportunity to learn of the beginnings of television from one of RCA's pioneering engineers.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Who invented television? Chapter 3: The vacuum tube era. Chapter 4: Dr. Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin. Chapter 5: The foremost problem of television. Chapter 6: Philo Farnsworth Chapter 7: Television at Purdue University. Chapter 8: Sarnoff, radio, and early television. Chapter 9: The RCA laboratories division. Chapter 10: The evolution of sensitive camera tubes Chapter 11: The field-sequential color incident. Chapter 12: The invention of compatible color. Chapter 13: The shadow mask color picture tubes. Chapter 14: A projector, camera, and triniscope. Chapter 15: Transmitting color pictures. Chapter 16: The color television hearings of 1949/1950. Chapter 17: Delayed broadcasting. Chapter 18: Goodbye RCA Chapter 19: The beginnings of digital television. Appendix: Historic report on camera tube development.
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