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Tele-Visionaries: The People Behind the Invention of Television
ISBN: 978-0-471-71156-8
Hardcover
192 pages
September 2005, Wiley-IEEE Press
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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.