Visions of electric media : television in the Victorian and machine ages /

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Visions of Electric Media is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional technology? What did Victorians expect it to become? How did the 'vision�...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Roberts, Ivy, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Televisual culture.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > History.
Television > History.
Télévision > Histoire.
TV and society.
History of engineering and technology.
Technology & Engineering > Television & Video.
Television.
Television broadcasting.
Television, media, history, culture, technology.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: The Lifespan of a Media Technology
  • 1. The Telephonoscope:
  • 2. The Far-Sight Machine and the Kinetograph
  • 3. Human-Seeing Machines
  • Interlude
  • 4. The Illuminating Engineers
  • 5. The Ikonophone
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Index

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