Visions of Electric Media : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages / Ivy Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Ivy, Author.

Series:

Televisual culture.

Televisual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--History.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-003-70915-X

90-485-3787-8

9781003709152

OCLC:

1126212348

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access