Moving images (3 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. Explores the use of projected images for education and amusement, precursor to modern cinema. 10 Pages. Illustrated with wood engravings. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without a title page. This particular trial report has been removed from a volume of Lardner's Museum of Science & Art and is now preserved in a modern loose card cover - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 11 x 18 cms. Category: Museum of Science & Art; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xii), 265 pp with monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £20.00. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. ++" the first demonstration of a television system that could scan and display live moving images with tonal graduation."++ (BAIRD, John Logie.) "Television", 2 articles in Nature, London, Macmillan, 15 January 1927, volume 119 no. 2985, pp 73-75 and a one-paragraph summary of Baird's demonstration of his new device, pg 101 in the "Annual Exhibition of the Physical and Optical Sciences" section. Offered in the full weekly issue of pp 73-108, with the front wrapper. The issue has been removed from a larger bound volume and is complete in itself and relatively intact. Good condition. Provenance: Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, with their small oval stamp on the front wrapper.[++] "Baird gave the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in a three-week series of demonstrations beginning on 25 March 1925.On 26 January 1926, Baird gave the first public demonstration of true television images for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London. Baird initially used a scan rate of 5 pictures per second, improving this to 12.5 pictures per second c.1927. It was the first demonstration of a television system that could scan and display live moving images with tonal graduation."--very nice article in Wikipedia.…