History

History Links

• NCSU Computer Graphics Lab 1970-78 Early Graphics combining Computers & Television technology.
  
• Television History General television & broadcasting history, with focus on the inventors and innovations.
  
• Adventures in CyberSound: Eye of the World Biography and interviews about John Logie Baird, one of the people credited with the invention of television.
  
• Early Television: Photo Collection Personal photo album of Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, one of the people credited with the invention of television.
  
• ether.net Technostalgia site taking in some of the more technical aspects of home entertainment from radio through television and the Internet.
  
• Library of American Broadcasting University of Maryland 'Broadcasting Pioneers' museum.
  
• Ed Reitan's Color Television History Traces the history of early color television. Includes a number of pictures.
  
• Convergence From the Center for the Study of Technology and Society. Convergence is the intersection of communication, computers, the Internet, invisible computing and television.
  
• The History of Film for Broadcast Outlines the history of film and its marriage with television.
  
• World's Earliest Television Recordings Restored Information on the recovery of the earliest recordings of television, describing the restoration of these recordings and their history.
  
• BBC Research & Development - Milestones History of the department that has been involved in the emergence of technical standards since before the BBC first began broadcasting television in the 1930s
  
• History of Telecommunications Brief timeline charting the development of telecommunications, including television, from a German point of view.
  
• The Official Philo T. Farnsworth Web-site Site devoted to the man many believe invented, among other things, television.
  
• History of Television Jean-Jacques Peters of the European Broadcasting Union presents an illustrated tour through the technical development of television broadcasting and reception.
  
• Invention of Television Beginner's guide to the technical development of television in the United States.
  
• Broadcast History Timeline Important dates in the evolution of broadcasting
  
• Quadruplex Park: Museum of Broadcast Technology Collection of electronic equipment used in broadcasting: large format VTRs, film chains, switchers, studio cameras, terminal equipment, and transmitters.
  
• John Logie Baird Online encyclopaedia entry for one of the people credited with the invention of television, giving a history of mechanical broadcasting.