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

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
000101
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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82 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION TELEVISION TIME-TABLE Stage One Stage Two Stage Three Stage Four Stage Five Infancy Childhood Adolescence Manhood Maturity Laboratory stage; era of me- chanical scanning. Television's present stage. Continued experiment, per- fecting cathode beam scan- ning and high - frequency transmission. From the formation of the A.A.T., through the growth of commercial television. Mushrooming stations. Na- tion-wide videofilm network. Rapid sale of receivers and conversion of theatres. Con- tinues through five to ten post-war years. More viewers than listeners. Instantaneous coast-to-coast chains. Continued expansion, especially into less populous areas. World - wide, low - cost net- works. Decline of videofilm. Television firmly established as a cornerstone of Ameri- can—and world—life. desired by the watchers of the nation. Eventu- ally, in the far, far distant future, some keen mind in the field of electronic research may turn out a low-cost method of coast-to-coast