Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

RICHARD C. WEBB, PhD, worked at RCA from 1939 to 1954, first as a research fellow with Purdue University and then as a staff research engineer. Following his career at RCA, Dr. Webb joined the staff at the University of Denver. Dr. Webb, an IEEE Fellow, received the Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award from Purdue University in 1992 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Denver in 1996.

Reviews

"...nice addition to the TV executive library." (Video Age, January 2006) "An exciting historical perspective on the dream of distributing sight and sound by electric means..." (Broadcaster, October 2005)