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Television : the life story of a technology / Alexander B. Magoun.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.Edition: Johns Hopkins pbk. editionDescription: xviii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780801890727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801890721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.388009
LOC classification:
  • TK 6637 M211t 2009
Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index.

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

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

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