The Early Days of Television

This paper describes the beginnings of television, both in the U.S.A. and abroad. Once there had been formulated the desire to transmit pictorial intelligence, including motion, from one point to another, many ingenious attempts to solve the technical problems were proposed. The paper describes a number of the more significant early steps and points out that although they were broadly successful in obtaining the primary objective of “seeing at a distance,” they were limited as to the amount of pictorial matter that could be transmitted.

Print ISSN

0898-042X

Published

1954-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J15640