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Auction archive: Lot number 193

TELEVISION]. (1) Television: The world's first television journal. A monthly magazine devoted to the interests and progress of the science of seeing by wire and wireless . Vol. 1, nos. 1-12 (March 1928-February 1929). Original pictorial wrappers; box...

Auction 23.02.2005
23 Feb 2005
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$4,560
Auction archive: Lot number 193

TELEVISION]. (1) Television: The world's first television journal. A monthly magazine devoted to the interests and progress of the science of seeing by wire and wireless . Vol. 1, nos. 1-12 (March 1928-February 1929). Original pictorial wrappers; box...

Auction 23.02.2005
23 Feb 2005
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$4,560
Beschreibung:

TELEVISION]. (1) Television: The world's first television journal. A monthly magazine devoted to the interests and progress of the science of seeing by wire and wireless . Vol. 1, nos. 1-12 (March 1928-February 1929). Original pictorial wrappers; boxed. (2) Two-way television and a pictorial account of its background . N.p.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, [April 1930.] Original pictorial wrappers. (3) Report of the television committee presented by the Postmaster-General to Parliament by command of His Majesty, January, 1935 . London: H. M Stationery Office, 1935. Original printed self-wrappers. (4) GARRATT, G. R. M. and PARR, G., eds. Television: An account of the development and general principles of television as illustrated by a special exhibition held at the Science Museum -- June-September, 1937 . London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1937. Original green cloth. (5) LOHR, Lenox R. (b.1891). Television broadcasting: Production, economics, technique . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1940. Original red cloth. (6) DE FOREST, Lee (1873-1961). Television today and tomorrow . New York: Dial Press, 1942. Original red cloth. Provenance : (5): Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), inventor of the first electronic scanning television system. With Zworykin's signature on the half-title, and bookplate on the inside front cover. Author's card laid in, indicating that Lohr most likely presented this copy to Zworykin. (6): Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend, Earl Hines, with best wishes, Lee de Forest. June 14, '42." The recipient may have been the jazz pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines (1905-83). A group of works from the early days of television. No. (1) is THE FIRST PERIODICAL PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO TELEVISION, began publication in 1928, the year that marked the beginning of television's transformation from scientific curiosity to commercially viable broadcast medium. The journal served as the official organ of the Television Society. No. (2) commemorates Bell Telephone Laboratory's demonstration on April 9, 1930 of a two-way television system set up between Bell Labs and the AT&T offices in New York. "Telephone booths at each end contained two disk systems, one with an arc light for transmission and the other with a special neon tube for reception, along with photocells, microphone, and loudspeaker. This elaborate apparatus, which produced 72-line inages with 18 frames per second, required eight wire circuits between the stations" (Shiers 1997, 209). No. (3), published by the British Parliament's Television Committee, describes the world's first high-definition, regular, public, television broadcasting system, established in London, with the BBC as the operating authority. This is considered a founding document of BBC Television. No. (4) was published in conjunction with an exhibition on television held at the Science Museum in 1937; it includes information on Carey's system. No. (5), a textbook written by the then-president of NBC, is from the library of one of television's pioneers, Vladmimir Zworykin, who developed the first electronic scanning television system using his inventions, the iconoscope and kinescope, the forerunners of today's television camera and picture tubes. No. (6) was written by the inventor of the Audion triode vacuum tube, the first successful electronic amplifier. The Audion was used first as a detector of radio waves, then as an amplifier for long distance telephone calls, and finally as the major technology of the radio transmitter. Shier 4788 (no. [3]); 7368 (no. [4]). OOC 203.

Auction archive: Lot number 193
Auction:
Datum:
23 Feb 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

TELEVISION]. (1) Television: The world's first television journal. A monthly magazine devoted to the interests and progress of the science of seeing by wire and wireless . Vol. 1, nos. 1-12 (March 1928-February 1929). Original pictorial wrappers; boxed. (2) Two-way television and a pictorial account of its background . N.p.: Bell Telephone Laboratories, [April 1930.] Original pictorial wrappers. (3) Report of the television committee presented by the Postmaster-General to Parliament by command of His Majesty, January, 1935 . London: H. M Stationery Office, 1935. Original printed self-wrappers. (4) GARRATT, G. R. M. and PARR, G., eds. Television: An account of the development and general principles of television as illustrated by a special exhibition held at the Science Museum -- June-September, 1937 . London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1937. Original green cloth. (5) LOHR, Lenox R. (b.1891). Television broadcasting: Production, economics, technique . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1940. Original red cloth. (6) DE FOREST, Lee (1873-1961). Television today and tomorrow . New York: Dial Press, 1942. Original red cloth. Provenance : (5): Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), inventor of the first electronic scanning television system. With Zworykin's signature on the half-title, and bookplate on the inside front cover. Author's card laid in, indicating that Lohr most likely presented this copy to Zworykin. (6): Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend, Earl Hines, with best wishes, Lee de Forest. June 14, '42." The recipient may have been the jazz pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines (1905-83). A group of works from the early days of television. No. (1) is THE FIRST PERIODICAL PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO TELEVISION, began publication in 1928, the year that marked the beginning of television's transformation from scientific curiosity to commercially viable broadcast medium. The journal served as the official organ of the Television Society. No. (2) commemorates Bell Telephone Laboratory's demonstration on April 9, 1930 of a two-way television system set up between Bell Labs and the AT&T offices in New York. "Telephone booths at each end contained two disk systems, one with an arc light for transmission and the other with a special neon tube for reception, along with photocells, microphone, and loudspeaker. This elaborate apparatus, which produced 72-line inages with 18 frames per second, required eight wire circuits between the stations" (Shiers 1997, 209). No. (3), published by the British Parliament's Television Committee, describes the world's first high-definition, regular, public, television broadcasting system, established in London, with the BBC as the operating authority. This is considered a founding document of BBC Television. No. (4) was published in conjunction with an exhibition on television held at the Science Museum in 1937; it includes information on Carey's system. No. (5), a textbook written by the then-president of NBC, is from the library of one of television's pioneers, Vladmimir Zworykin, who developed the first electronic scanning television system using his inventions, the iconoscope and kinescope, the forerunners of today's television camera and picture tubes. No. (6) was written by the inventor of the Audion triode vacuum tube, the first successful electronic amplifier. The Audion was used first as a detector of radio waves, then as an amplifier for long distance telephone calls, and finally as the major technology of the radio transmitter. Shier 4788 (no. [3]); 7368 (no. [4]). OOC 203.

Auction archive: Lot number 193
Auction:
Datum:
23 Feb 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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