The history of television, 1942 to 2000 - Albert Abramson

Albert Abramson published (with McFarland) in 1987 a landmark volume titled The History of Television, 1880-1941 (see right). This second volume, 1942 to 2000, covers the significant developments of new cameras and picture tubes (making commercial television possible worldwide), the invention of the video tape recorder (allowing editing, re-shooting and rebroadcasting) and much more. Chapters are devoted to television and World War II and the postwar era, the development of color television, Ampex Corporation's contributions, television in Europe, the change from helical to high band technology, solid state cameras, the television coverage of Apollo II, the rise of electronic journalism, television entering the studios, the introduction of the camcorder, the demise of RCA at the hands of GE, the domination of Sony and Matsushita, and the future of television in e-cinema and the 1080 P24 format. The book is heavily illustrated (as is the first volume).