Television : The Life Story of a Technology Hardback
by Alexander B. Magoun
Part of the Greenwood Technographies series
Hardback
Description
For better or worse, television has been the dominant medium of communication for 50 years.
Almost all American households have a television set; many have more than one.
Transmitting images and sounds electronically is a relatively recent invention, one that required passionate inventors, determined businessmen, government regulators, and willing consumers.
This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers the entire history of television from 19the-century European conceptions of transmitting moving images electrically to the death of TV as a discrete system in a digital age.
Magoun also discusses the changing face of television in the displays that people watch around the globe.
Television: The Life Story of a Technology appeals to students and lay readers alike in highlighting key events and people: the American engineers and entrepreneus such as Vladimir Zworykin and David Sarnoff who ignited the television industry; the bloom of programming choices in tandem with the Baby Boom generation; the development of cable and satellite TV; the Asians who innovated American inventions in videorecording and flat-panel displays; the use of TV in wartime; and the new worlds of digital and high-definition television.
Based on the latest research, this crisply written, sometimes provocative survey includes a glossary, timeline, and bibliography for further infomration.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/06/2007
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- ISBN:9780313331282
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/06/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780313331282
