Excerpt from Understanding Television: What It Is and How It Works Think of yourself blindfolded at a baseball game with somebody alongside describing each play, endeavoring through words to give you a mental picture of what is going on. That is radio broadcasting. But lift the blind fold and see the scene for yourself That is television, with an expert sports commentator to explain every play. Television is new as science measures Time; it is a new art, yet its name is of the ancients. Tele is Greek for at a distance. Video is the Latin verb meaning to see. Officially, television is defined as radio or electrical transmission Of a succession of images and their reception in such a manner as to give a substantially continuous and Simultaneous reproduction of an object or scene before the eyes of a distant observer. Marconi described it as the highest grade in the art of communication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.