Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939

by Doron Galili

Book Overview

Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would "see" by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of television, from fantastical image transmission devices initially imagined in the 1870s such as the Telectroscope, the Phantoscope, and the Distant Seer to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008229
• ISBN13: 9781478008224
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"