From the first notions of "seeing by electricity" in 1878 through the period to Baird's demonstration of television in 1926 and up to 1940, when war brought the advance of the technology to a temporar
The birth of television. Company formation and progress. The BBC view. The start of the experimental service. A commercial prospect. The emergence of a competitor. The work of the television committee
Burns, a physicist retired to a second career in the history of electrical engineering, presents the second biography of Blumlein (1903-42) this year. He describes how the British electronics engineer
