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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Roberts, Ivy, 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Television broadcasting.
Television.
Technology & Engineering > Television & Video.
Television > Histoire.
Television > History.
Television broadcasting > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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