3 THE TECHNOLOGY OF TELEVISION
Albert Moran
The British historian Asa Briggs (Briggs 1960) has noted a parallel between a range of discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth and the nineteenth century. Those in the eighteenth had to do with chemical discoveries and mechanical inventions which gave rise, early in the new century, to what has been collectively called the Industrial Revolution. So too a range of discoveries and inventions at the end of the nineteenth century—which included the development of the motion picture, the gramophone and the isolation of the principle of radiated electrical transfer—has in the twentieth century given rise to what has inadequately been described as the Communications Revolution.
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