02025cam a2200301 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000380009502000350013304000230016804100080019105000240019908200150022310000260023824500730026425000310033726000560036830000500042450000660047450400690054050503460060952007140095565000250166965000290169415557119BJBSDDR20240219151835.0ta081215s2009    mdua     b    001 0 eng    a  2008943554  a9780801890727 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a0801890721 (pbk. : alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng  aeng14aTK 6637bM211t 200900a621.3880091 aMagoun, Alexander B. 10aTelevision :bthe life story of a technology /cAlexander B. Magoun.  aJohns Hopkins pbk. edition  aBaltimore :bJohns Hopkins University Press,c2009.  axviii, 209 pages : billustrations ; c25 cm.  aOriginally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index.0 aPrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. Conception, 1873–19112. Birth of a Technology; or Invention, 1912–19283. Parenthood: Television's Innovation, 1928–19414. Working for a Living: Television's Commercialization, 1941–19665. Children of the Revolution, 1947–19876. The Digital Generation and the End of TelevisionGlossaryBibliographyIndex  aFor better or worse, television is the dominant medium of communication in today's culture. Almost all American households have a television; most have more than one. But the ability to send images and sounds through the air, or via a cable, is a relatively recent invention, one that required inquisitive inventors, clever business people, and creative entertainers. This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series will will cover the entire history of television from the early twentieth-century ideas of transmitting images by electromagnetic waves to the current issues involving HDTV. In addition, the volume will discuss the continuing importance of television in the lives of people across the globe 0aTelevisionxHistory. 4aTelevisión xHistoria