| Description |
xii, 661 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
IEE history of technology series ; 22 |
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History of technology series ; 22
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| Contents |
Images and society (c. 16th century to c. mid-19th century) -- Images by wire, picture telegraphy (1843 -- c. 1900) -- Seeing by electricity, the earliest notions (1878-1880) -- Persistence of vision and moving images (1825 -- c. 1900) -- Distant vision (1800-1920) -- A possible way forward (1900-1920) -- Developments of importance to television |
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RCA, Sarnoff and television, (1919-1932) -- RCA and all-electronic television, (1933-1935) -- EMI, Shoenberg and television (1931-1934) -- Progress in the UK and abroad, (1934-1935) -- The London station and foreign developments, (1935-1938) -- Television in the US, (1935-1941) -- The world's first, regular, public, high-definition service, (1936-1939) |
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The breakthrough, J L Baird and television (the 1920s) -- The approaches of a lone inventor and a chief engineer (the 1920s) -- Excellence in low-definition television (1925-1930) -- German and French developments (the 1920s and early 1930s) -- Some low-definition television broadcasting services, c. 1930 -- Large-screen television (1930-1935) -- Between low and high-definition television, (1930-1931) -- Early electronic camera tubes, and the work of Farnsworth, (c. 1920-1935) -- Zworykin and the kinescope, (1923-1930) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [637]-639) and index |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- History.
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Television -- History.
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Television -- Receivers and reception -- History.
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| Author |
Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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Science Museum (Great Britain)
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| LC no. |
2001515675 |
| ISBN |
0852969147 |
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