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Auction archive: Lot number 168•

TELEVISION

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$762 - US$1,017
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 168•

TELEVISION

Estimate
£600 - £800
ca. US$762 - US$1,017
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

TELEVISIONDINSDALE (ALFRED) Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece of John Logie Baird, 5 photographic plates, 6 full-page diagrams, publisher's printed boards, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling to lower cover and spine), later slipcase, 8vo, Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926--PHILP (CHARLES G.) Television for All. A Simple Explanation of Television for the General Public, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Percival Marshall, [c.1930]; and 7 others relating to television and radio, including printed "Patent Specification 524,443... Improvements in or relating to Television Systems" for George Valensi's colour television, H.M.S.O., 1940 (9)FootnotesFIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION. Dinsdale discusses the technical challenges faced by early experimenters, but focuses primarily on the work of Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, the work appearing in the same year that Baird successfully transmitted recognizable human faces between two rooms by television. Of Baird's early experiments, Dinsdale writes: "Baird's weird apparatus - old bicycle sprockets, biscuit tins, cardboard discs and bullseye lenses, all tied together with sealing wax and string - failed to impress those who were accustomed to the shining brass and exquisite mechanism of the instrument maker. The importance of the demonstration was, however, realized by the scientific world..." (p. 49).

Auction archive: Lot number 168•
Auction:
Datum:
22 Jan 2024 - 31 Jan 2024
Auction house:
Bonhams London
101 New Bond Street
London, W1S 1SR
United Kingdom
info@bonhams.com
+44 (0)20 74477447
+44 (0)20 74477401
Beschreibung:

TELEVISIONDINSDALE (ALFRED) Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece of John Logie Baird, 5 photographic plates, 6 full-page diagrams, publisher's printed boards, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling to lower cover and spine), later slipcase, 8vo, Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926--PHILP (CHARLES G.) Television for All. A Simple Explanation of Television for the General Public, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Percival Marshall, [c.1930]; and 7 others relating to television and radio, including printed "Patent Specification 524,443... Improvements in or relating to Television Systems" for George Valensi's colour television, H.M.S.O., 1940 (9)FootnotesFIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION. Dinsdale discusses the technical challenges faced by early experimenters, but focuses primarily on the work of Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, the work appearing in the same year that Baird successfully transmitted recognizable human faces between two rooms by television. Of Baird's early experiments, Dinsdale writes: "Baird's weird apparatus - old bicycle sprockets, biscuit tins, cardboard discs and bullseye lenses, all tied together with sealing wax and string - failed to impress those who were accustomed to the shining brass and exquisite mechanism of the instrument maker. The importance of the demonstration was, however, realized by the scientific world..." (p. 49).

Auction archive: Lot number 168•
Auction:
Datum:
22 Jan 2024 - 31 Jan 2024
Auction house:
Bonhams London
101 New Bond Street
London, W1S 1SR
United Kingdom
info@bonhams.com
+44 (0)20 74477447
+44 (0)20 74477401
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