Overview

Eye of the Peacock provides the historical background of the dream of sight/sound extension by electric means-television-and identifies the major participants. The book examines the foremost problem delaying the early progress of television and explores how the development of full-color television by examining the inventions needed to achieve the dream, the people who produced them, the role of the motion picture industry, and more.

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Author:   R.C. Webb
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9780471711568

ISBN 10:   047171156
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 August 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Who invented television? Chapter 3: The vacuum tube era. Chapter 4: Dr. Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin. Chapter 5: The foremost problem of television. Chapter 6: Philo Farnsworth Chapter 7: Television at Purdue University. Chapter 8: Sarnoff, radio, and early television. Chapter 9: The RCA laboratories division. Chapter 10: The evolution of sensitive camera tubes Chapter 11: The field-sequential color incident. Chapter 12: The invention of compatible color. Chapter 13: The shadow mask color picture tubes. Chapter 14: A projector, camera, and triniscope. Chapter 15: Transmitting color pictures. Chapter 16: The color television hearings of 1949/1950. Chapter 17: Delayed broadcasting. Chapter 18: Goodbye RCA Chapter 19: The beginnings of digital television. Appendix: Historic report on camera tube development.

Reviews

...nice addition to the TV executive library. (Video Age, January 2006) An exciting historical perspective on the dream of distributing sight and sound by electric means... (Broadcaster, October 2005)

Author Information

RICHARD C. WEBB, PhD, worked at RCA from 1939 to 1954, first as a research fellow with Purdue University and then as a staff research engineer. Following his career at RCA, Dr. Webb joined the staff at the University of Denver. Dr. Webb, an IEEE Fellow, received the Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award from Purdue University in 1992 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Denver in 1996.

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