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Restoring Baird's image

By Baird , Donald F , John; Baird , John Logie; McLean

Book information

Publisher
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Year
2000
ISBN
0-85296-795-0, 9780852967959
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
37 MB (38932603 bytes)
Series
History of technology series 27
Pages
295\317
Time added
2016-04-05 23:00:00

Description

In the late 1920s, John Logie Baird - considered to be the inventor of television - was experimenting with 'phonovision' in which he attempted to record television signals onto gramophone discs. His efforts were mostly unsuccessful and this technology largely forgotten, until the 1980s when Don McLean came across the discs and set about restoring them with modern computer-based techniques. The recovery of these images gives us a fascinating glimpse of what the earliest television was like (before official TV services started). As well as helping to explain a poorly understood period of television history, this unique book sheds new light on the activities of John Logie Baird and the definition and invention of television itself

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