"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00031
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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2 THE MOVING FINGER WRITES—" EMEMBER those lines from Omar Khay- yam? "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line . . ." That might apply to television; except that the "moving finger" is a cathode beam made up of a few million electrons. And our piety and wit manage to lure it back to cancel five-hun- dred-and-twenty-five lines thirty times a second. In the next few pages, we're going to describe how television works. This is important. To have a clear understanding of where television is going, we must appreciate the technicalities which will decide ultimately how far it can go, and how it can get there. This chapter deals with some of the most complex theory in mod- ern electronics; but it's as plain and graphic and non-technical as science can be described. Chances are you'll get through it without even 12