Television, an international history of the formative years.

Chapters :

Part I : THE ERA OF SPECULATION 1877 TO c. 1922 :

1 Images and society (c. 16th Century to c. mid-19th Century) ;
2 Images,by wire, picture telegraphy (1843-c. 1900) ;
3 Seeing by electricity, the earliest notions (1878-1880) ;
4 Persistence of vision and moving Images (1825-c. 1900) ;
5 Distant vision(1880-1920) ;
6 Apossible way forward(1900-1920) ;
7 Developments of importance to television ;

Part II : THE ERA OF LOW-DEFINITION TELEVISION 1926 TO 1934 :

8 The breakthrough, J L Baird and television (the 1920s) ;
9 The approaches of a lone inventor and a chief engineer (the 1920s) ;
10 Excellence in low-definition television (1925-1930) ;
11 German and French developments (the 1920s and early 1930s) ;
12 Some low-definition television broadcasting Services, c. 1930 ;
13 Large-screen television (1930-1935) ;

Part III : THE ERA OF PRE-WAR AND HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION 1934 TO 1939 :

14 Between low and high-definition television, (1930-1931) ;
15 Early electronic camera tubes, and the work of Farnsworth, (c. 1920-1935) ;
16 Zworykin and the kinescope, (1923-1930) ;
17 RCA, Sarnoff and television, (1919-1932) ;
18 RCA and all-electronic television, (1933-1935) ;
19 EMI, Shoenberg and television, (1931-1934) ;
20 Progress in the UK and abroad, (1934-1935) ;
21 The London station and foreign developments, (1935—1938) ;
22 Television in the US, (1935-1941) ;
23 The world's first, regular, public, high-definition service, (1936-1939) ;

Appendices :

1 The charge storage principle ;
2 Some patents on scanning 1889-1933 ;
3 Characteristics of mechnical optical scanning systems ;
4 'Brief survey of the present television situation' (The Gramophone Company Ltd, 27 October 1930) ;
5 Comparison of intensity and velocity modulation ;
6 Estimated cost of a television service from London and four regional stations ;

Bibliography ;

Index.