Visions of Electric Media : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages /

Visions of Electric Media is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today develop into a functional technology? What did Victorians expect it to become? How did the 'vision�...

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1. Verfasser: Roberts, Ivy, 1982- (Verfasst von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: The Lifespan of a Media Technology
  • 1. The Telephonoscope:
  • 2. The Far-Sight Machine and the Kinetograph
  • 3. Human-Seeing Machines
  • Interlude
  • 4. The Illuminating Engineers
  • 5. The Ikonophone
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • About the Author
  • Index