Visions of Electric Media : : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages / / Ivy Roberts.
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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Roberts, Ivy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Visions of Electric Media : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages / Ivy Roberts. Amsterdam University Press 2019 Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (287 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Televisual culture Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020) 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' of television change once viewers could actually see pictures on a screen? We will journey through the history of 'television': from the first indications of live communications in technology and culture in the late nineteenth century, to the development of electronic televisual systems in the early twentieth century. Along the way, we will investigate the philosophy, folklore, engineering practices, and satires that went into making television a useful medium. In English. 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 This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 Television broadcasting History. Television, media, history, culture, technology. 94-6298-659-2 Televisual culture. |
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