Magoun, Alexander B.  <br/><br/>
Television :  the life story of a technology / 
Alexander B. Magoun. 
 - Johns Hopkins pbk. edition 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2009. 
 - xviii, 209 pages :   illustrations ;   25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index. 
<br/><br/>PrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. Conception, 1873–19112. Birth of a Technology; or Invention, 1912–19283. Parenthood: Television's Innovation, 1928–19414. Working for a Living: Television's Commercialization, 1941–19665. Children of the Revolution, 1947–19876. The Digital Generation and the End of TelevisionGlossaryBibliographyIndex 
<br/><br/> For better or worse, television is the dominant medium of communication in today's culture. Almost all American households have a television; most have more than one. But the ability to send images and sounds through the air, or via a cable, is a relatively recent invention, one that required inquisitive inventors, clever business people, and creative entertainers. This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series will will cover the entire history of television from the early twentieth-century ideas of transmitting images by electromagnetic waves to the current issues involving HDTV. In addition, the volume will discuss the continuing importance of television in the lives of people across the globe 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801890727 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801890721 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008943554 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television--History.<br/>Televisión --Historia 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK 6637  / M211t 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.388009