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Donald F. McLean Restoring Baird's Image (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Restoring Baird's Image
- Publication Name
- Restoring Baird's Image
- Title
- Restoring Baird's Image
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780852967959
- ISBN
- 9780852967959
- Publisher
- Institution of Engineering & Technology
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Release Year
- 2000
- Release Date
- 30/06/2000
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Series
- History and Management of Technology Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 21.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 316 Pages
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John Logie Baird, Britain's foremost television pioneer, experimented with video recording onto gramophone discs in the late 1920s. Though unsuccessful at the time, his experiments resulted in several videodiscs, some 25 years before the videotape recorder became practical. These videodiscs - called Phonovision - remained neglected over the decades, considered by experts as unplayable. In the early 1980s, the author sought out and restored the surviving Phonovision discs. Using computer-based techniques in an investigation reminiscent of an archaeological dig, the author has not only revealed the images on the discs but also uncovered details of how the recordings were made. The Phonovision discs have now become recognised as one of Baird's most important legacies. In 1996 and 1998, amateur 'off-air' recordings of the BBC's 30-line Television Service (1932-35) were found, giving us our first view of what viewers were then watching. The author's restoration overturns established views on mechanically scanned television, providing us today with a true measure of Britain's heritage of television programme-making before electronic television. As well as helping to explain a poorly understood and complex period in television's history, this unique book, heavily illustrated with previously unpublished or rarely-seen historic photographs restored by the author, sheds light on the achievements of Baird, the development of video recording and the definition and invention of television itself.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Institution of Engineering & Technology
ISBN-10
0852967950
ISBN-13
9780852967959
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1754842
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Restoring Baird's Image
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Series
History and Management of Technology Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
316 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
No. 27
Reviews
'a fascinating read. The book goes a long way to help the reader appreciate the significance of these recordings and the era in which they were made. A TV historian's delight providing a refreshing 'new look' history in both words and pictures.'
Table of Content
Chapter 1: As Others See Us Chapter 2: Distant Vision Chapter 3: The Path to Television Chapter 4: Phonovision Chapter 5: Restoring Vision Chapter 6: Discoveries Chapter 7: Television Develops Chapter 8: It's All in the Groove Chapter 9: Capturing the Vision Chapter 10: Revising History
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Television / History & Criticism, Inventions, Television & Video, History, Science & Technology
Dewey Decimal
621.38800941
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Performing Arts
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