Television: The Life Story of a Technology

by Alexander B. Magoun

Book Overview

For better or worse, television has been the dominant medium of communication for fifty years. Yet it is a relatively recent invention, one that required passionate inventors, determined businessmen, government regulators, and willing consumers. This volume covers the history of television from nineteenth-century European conceptions of transmitting moving images electrically to the death of television as a discrete system in a digital age.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890721
• ISBN13: 9780801890727
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"