Tele-visionaries : the people behind the invention of television / Richard C. Webb.
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- 9780471711568 :
- 047171156X (print ed.)
- 9780471711568 (print ed.)
- 0471743712 (electronic bk.)
- 9780471743712 (electronic bk.)
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IEEE ebook
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who invented television? -- The vacuum tube era -- Dr. Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin -- The foremost problem of television -- Philo Farnsworth -- Television at Purdue University -- Sarnoff, radio, and early television -- The RCA laboratories division -- The evolution of sensitive camera tubes -- The field-sequential color incident -- The invention of compatible color -- The shadow mask color picture tubes -- A projector, camera, and triniscope -- Transmitting color pictures -- The color television hearings of 1949/1950 -- Delayed broadcasting -- Goodbye RCA -- The beginnings of digital television -- Historic report on camera tube development.