Television: Seeing by Wireless
by Dinsdale, Alfred
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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CHESTER, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Pitman, 1926. First edition. The first book in English devoted to television. Original printed wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, the wrappers in fine condition, the jacket with some light soiling and small closed tears to the lower edge. 62 pp.; 12 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of inventor John Logie Baird and a print of the first photograph ever taken by television. "On January 23, 1926, Baird gave a demonstration of his television apparatus to some 40 members of the Royal Institution at his laboratory in Frith Street, Soho. This was the first public demonstration of true television ever witnessed. The images of human faces, not as outlines or silhouettes but complete with tonal gradations of light and shade and detail were transmitted between two rooms," A. Abramson, The History of Television, 1880 to 1941 (1987), p. 84.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31459
- Title
- Television: Seeing by Wireless
- Author
- Dinsdale, Alfred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Pitman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- , RADIO AND TELEVISION, PHOTOGRAPHY, ,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
CHESTER, Connecticut
About Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Specialized dealer in rare books and manuscripts, since 1975.
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