the life story of a technology Magoun, Alexander B. creator text bibliography mdu Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 Johns Hopkins pbk. edition monographic eng

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xviii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. 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 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 Alexander B. Magoun. Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007 Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index. Television History Televisión Historia TK 6637 M211t 2009 621.388009 9780801890727 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801890721 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2008943554 DLC 081215 20240219151835.0 15557119 eng