02379cam a2200373 a 4500 15557119 BJBSDDR 20240219151835.0 ta 081215s2009 mdua b 001 0 eng 2008943554 9780801890727 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801890721 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC eng eng TK 6637 M211t 2009 621.388009 Magoun, Alexander B. 34442 Television : the life story of a technology / Alexander B. Magoun. Johns Hopkins pbk. edition Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007 Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index. PrefaceIntroductionTimeline1. 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 For 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 Television History. Televisión Historia 29182 7 cbc origcop 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK lmm 120382 120382 0 0 lcc 0 0 CT BJB BJB HU 2023-12-11 0 TK 6637 M211t 2009 00000170153 2023-12-11 00:00:00 1 2023-12-11 BK