Early Television

Shiers, George

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“…The idea of producing an image using grids or dots is not unique to the digital world and has its roots in half-tone printing. Earlier ideas of sampling points of an image electronically can be located in early techniques for scanning images in mechanical television systems in the early 20th century, based on the development of the image scanning, Nipkow disk in 1884 (Shiers and Shiers, 1997). Attempts to scan visual information for electronic transmission can be traced even further back to experiments with facsimile systems in the early 18th century (Huurdeman, 2003).…”

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The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015

Lischer-Katz

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand the emergence of digital reformatting as a technique for preserving information within the cultural heritage preservation community by reviewing historical trends in modern preservation research.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyzes secondary sources, reviews and historical texts to identify trends in the intellectual and technological histories of preservation research, beginning with the first applications of the scientific method to combating book decay in the early nineteenth to the emergence of digitization techniques in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.FindingsThis paper identifies five major historical periods in the development of preservation knowledge: the early experimental era; era of microfilm experimentation; era of professionalization; era of digital library research; and the era of digital reformatting and mass digitization; and identifies three major trends in its development: empirical inquiry, standardization and centralization.Research limitations/implicationsFindings reflect broad trends in the field of preservation, primarily in a United States context and are limited to the modern era of preservation research.Practical implicationsThis paper's broad historical overview provides a reference for preservation professionals and students in library science or archives programs. Identifying historical trends enables practitioners to critically examine their own preservation techniques and make better decisions when adopting and using new preservation technologies.Originality/valueThis paper provides a unique perspective on the history of preservation knowledge that synthesizes existing historical research in order to identify periods and trends that enable a clearer understanding of digital reformatting in its historical emergence.

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The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015

Lischer-Katz

2022

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“…Was the haze behind the ship? – Yes, it was astern of the ship when I saw it where the berg was (Shiers, ) .…”

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“…The plankton glows when disturbed by the movement of waves or by predators. Shiers () testified that he observed phosphorous that was coming up in the water right after the collision. Reflected starlight also could have made sea smoke more evident.…”

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Titanic’s mirage, part 2: Did a mysterious mirage‐associated haze camouflage the iceberg?

Zinkova

2018

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The Titanic saga has mystified people for more than a century. One of the most debated questions is why the iceberg was spotted too late to avoid the collision. A recent theory declares that the lookouts could not have seen the iceberg earlier because a mirage‐associated haze camouflaged it. Many Titanic researchers do not believe the haze was real. Lord Mersey, British Wreck Commissioner, said, I mean the evidence before and after the accident is that the sky was perfectly clear, and therefore if the evidence of the haze is to be accepted, it must have been some extraordinary natural phenomenon. This article (the second of four articles that look into the Titanic mirage theory) discusses the hazardous nature of icebergs, examines the testimonies of the Titanic’s lookouts and other eyewitnesses in regards to the haze, and offers some arguments regarding a few natural phenomena that could explain the origin of the haze. The article argues that the haze could very well have been real – and not due to some extraordinary phenomenon, nor a mirage, but rather due to a relatively common phenomenon known as ‘sea smoke’.

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“…Bright Signals , the first critical history of colour television in America, thus makes a very welcome and necessary contribution to the field. Certainly, the mechanics of colour TV have been recorded in technical studies (Abramson, 1987; Fielding, 1967; Shiers, 2010), and a small body of scholarship has explored the geopolitical skirmishes over the adoption of PAL, NTSC and SECAM standards (Burns, 2008; Fickers, 2010; Sterne and Mulvin, 2014). Yet Bright Signals manages the impressive task of demonstrating the inextricability of this technological narrative from the larger social and political history of modern America, moving deftly between interrelated aesthetic, ideological and technical concerns.…”

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Book Review: Bright Signals: A History of Colour Television

Dootson

2019

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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Early Television

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The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015

The emergence of digital reformatting in the history of preservation knowledge: 1823–2015

Titanic’s mirage, part 2: Did a mysterious mirage‐associated haze camouflage the iceberg?

Book Review: Bright Signals: A History of Colour Television

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