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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00084
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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5 "TELEVISION TIME-TABLE* ROM where we sit, five stages of the new in- dustry are visible before conjecture falters in the mists of the future. It will be interesting to rough out these phases of tele development, and lay a calendar along side them as an approxi- mate measure of their length. Blandly ignoring warnings from Shakespeare's lawyers, we may identify the five periods in the chronology of the industry as: (i) Infancy; (2) Childhood; (3) Adolescence; (4) Youth; and (5) Maturity. It won't be as pretty and clean-cut as that. But dividing the television time-table in this manner will order our thinking. Television's infancy was its purely laboratory stage. This was a decade-long whirling of scan- ning discs, mirror drums, and mechanically- driven scanning devices. Sight broadcasting emerged from the nursery with the introduction of electronic scanning. The cathode beam pointed the way toward high-quality video 65