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Doron Galili, “Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939” (Duke UP, 2020) (2020)

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With the burst of new technologies in the 1870s, many inventors and visionaries believed that the transmission of moving images was just around the corner. As Doron Galili details in his book Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke University Press, 2020), the half-century of speculations that followed did much to shape the development of broadcast television well before it emerged in the 1930s. Galili notes that much of this occurred within the context of contemporary technologies such as the cinema and the telephone, both of which pointed to the inherent possibilities of such an invention yet embodied very different ideas about image and communications. Seeking to conceptualize moving image technology, people often used the eye as a metaphor or model for how it might operate or the role that it would serve. Though the emergence of the cinema industry in the United States did much to shape the context in which television would develop in the United States, Galili shows how differing theories of visual media and society in the Soviet Union, Germany, and Italy offered alternate models that influenced how the new technology was received in their respective countries.

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Authors & Contributors
Peter B. Thompson
Galili, Doron
Urwand, Ben
Craig, Steve
Yeang, Chen-Pang
Wittje, Roland
Concepts
Technology and culture
Electricity; magnetism
Technology
Broadcasting, radio and television
Cross-national comparison
Technology and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Germany
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Russia
Institutions
Maxim Gorky Medical Genetics Institute (USSR)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, Menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik
Ford Motor Company
Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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