- 232 pages
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About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Timeline
- 1. Conception, 1873–1911
- 2. Birth of a Technology; or Invention, 1912–1928
- 3. Parenthood: Television’s Innovation, 1928–1941
- 4. Working for a Living: Television’s Commercialization, 1941–1966
- 5. Children of the Revolution, 1947–1987
- 6. The Digital Generation and the End of Television
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index