Creating Television
Subtitle: Conversations With the People Behind 50 Years of American TV (A Volume in LEA's Communication Series) (Lea's Communication Series)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780805810769
Subjects: Radio & television industry; Television; Television actors and actresses; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts; United States; Movie/Tv Tie-Ins; Television producers and directors; Television broadcasting; Television - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Interviews; Television actors and actresse; Television producers and direc
First sentence: The beginnings of television, depending on what you read, date back to Philip Nipkow's 1885 patent for the idea of a television scanner, Boris Rosing's 1906 electronic picture tube, Vladimir Zworykin's 1923 invention of the iconoscope, or Philo T. Farnsworth's 1927 patent on an "image dissector."