Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless.
by Dinsdale, Alfred
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1926. First edition of the first book on television, a key work on the history of technology. Octavo, original stiff boards, frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear, small tape repair on the front panel. Housed in a custom slipcase. The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline in 1924, and transmitted the first pictures between two televisions in April 1925.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119245
- Title
- Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless.
- Author
- Dinsdale, Alfred
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless First Edition
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Raptis Rare Books
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Shelfwear
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