All the World Becomes a Stage

This chapter contains sections titled:

• Basic Schemes

• Early Ideas

• The Nipkow Disk

• First Demonstrations

• And in Color, Too!

• The End of Mechanical Systems

• The Dawn of Electronic Television

• All-Electronic Television Arrives

• Sarnoff and Farnsworth

• Standards Again

• The First NTSC

• Incompatibility in Color

• Compatibility in Color

• NTSC II

• Final Details of the Color System

• A Picture Tube for Color

• Success for the NTSC

• Progress in Europe and Japan

• The Role of the Professional Society

• The Impact of TV on Society

• For Further Reading

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