COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Philo Farnsworth, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Fax
4 Dec 2018
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As a central source of information and entertainment since the 1950s, television has reflected and shaped hopes and fears of the ages. Tv embodied the dream of universal international communication more than its electronic predecessors. And yet when these dreams did come true, it exposed and compounded the clash of cultures as much as it contributed to peace and understanding. Advances in telegraphic and radio technology in the late 19th century led visionaries to imagine that, like electricity, light itself would soon be sent through wires. German inventor, arthur koran, developed away to scan photographs and send the signal through wires an early fax machine. The transition from radio to tv was not easy, the earliest tv programs simply broadcast live theater (we talked before about new media mimicking old media) historicpattern smallimprovements disworriesleadto agreat breakthrough. Farnsworth demonstrated the tv in 1928, but found he was in competition with westinghouse engineer, vladimir zworykin.
