Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; List of Tables; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Understanding a Century of Television; User Notes; Periodical Titles and Abbreviations; 1 Inventions and Discoveries (1817-1877); 2 Seeing by Electricity (1878-1884); 3 Era of Telectroscopes (1885-1900); 4 Distant Electric Vision (1901-1918); 5 Broadcasting and Pictures (1919-1924); 6 Images and Promises (1925-1926); 7 By Radio and by Wire (1927); 8 A Very Good Year (1928); 9 Designs for Tomorrow (1929); 10 On Stage (1930); 11 Big Pictures and Tiny Beams (1931)
12 The Derby and All That (1932)13 A Matter for Big Business (1933); 14 High Noon of Low Definition (1934); 15 Race for Success (1935); 16 End of an Era (1936); 17 Battle of the Systems (1937); 18 International Scene (1938); 19 The Video Art (1939); 20 Distant View (1940-1995); Name Index; Subject Index
Summary
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
