Alfred Dinsdale
Television | First Edition, Signed by Inventor John Logie Baird
W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons
1926
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A first edition of the first book on television, signed by John Logie Baird, who produced the first television image.
- Alfred Dinsdale (British).
- Television. Seeing by Wireless.
- London: W.S. Cairnes for Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926.
- 12mo.
- 10 plates included in pagination.
- Frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird.
- Signed by Baird ("JL Baird").
- Original printed buff stiff wrappers, dust jacket, in a half morocco slipcase and chemise.
The first book on television, focusing on the work of the Scottish engineer Baird (1888-1946), who produced the first television image in outline in 1924, and transmitted the first pictures between two televisions in April 1925. A key book in the history of technology.
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Very GoodIn a slightly soiled jacket with tape repaired tears.
Minor signs of age and handling.
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