Television
Subtitle: An International History
Contributors: Anthony Smith (Editor); Richard Paterson (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 20, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780198159285
First sentence: Television is the electrical transmission and reception of transient visual images, and is probably the first invention by committee, in the sense of resulting from the effort of hundreds of individuals widely separated in time and space, all prompted by the urge to produce a system of 'seeing over the horizon'.