Tele-Visionaries
The People Behind the Invention of Television
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2005
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-471-71156-8 (ISBN)
Description
This excellent publication provides a historical background of the dream of sight/sound extension by electric means and identification of the major participants is given. The book examines the foremost problem delaying the early progress of television and explores how the development of full-colour television by examining the inventions needed to achieve the dream, the people who produced them, the role of the motion picture industry, and more.
* Offers both a personal historical perspective of the development of television and an overview of the technology
* A unique opportunity to learn of the beginnings of television from one of RCA's pioneering engineers
Reviews / Votes
"...nice addition to the TV executive library." (Video Age, January 2006) "An exciting historical perspective on the dream of distributing sight and sound by electric means..." (Broadcaster, October 2005)More details
Series
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 24.2 cm
Width: 16 cm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-71156-8 (9780471711568)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
RICHARD C. WEBB, PhD, worked at RCA from 1939 to 1954, first as a research fellow with Purdue University and then as a staff research engineer. Following his career at RCA, Dr. Webb joined the staff at the University of Denver. Dr. Webb, an IEEE Fellow, received the Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award from Purdue University in 1992 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Denver in 1996.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Who invented television? Chapter 3: The vacuum tube era. Chapter 4: Dr. Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin. Chapter 5: The foremost problem of television. Chapter 6: Philo Farnsworth Chapter 7: Television at Purdue University. Chapter 8: Sarnoff, radio, and early television. Chapter 9: The RCA laboratories division. Chapter 10: The evolution of sensitive camera tubes Chapter 11: The field-sequential color incident. Chapter 12: The invention of compatible color. Chapter 13: The shadow mask color picture tubes. Chapter 14: A projector, camera, and triniscope. Chapter 15: Transmitting color pictures. Chapter 16: The color television hearings of 1949/1950. Chapter 17: Delayed broadcasting. Chapter 18: Goodbye RCA Chapter 19: The beginnings of digital television. Appendix: Historic report on camera tube development.