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General articles

Page history last edited by Alan Hartley-Smith 3 years, 5 months ago

 

 

 

 

 

The articles relating to Television have been restructured a) because of their volume and b) to make easier reading by placing in date order.

 

 

United Kingdom  All years  here

Australia 

All years  here
Other countries  All years  here
Other articles  Up to 1969  List 1
  1970 to 1979  List 2
  1980 +  List 3

 

These articles have been extracted primarily from the following magazine sets held on the Marconi Family Wiki, access to which is publicly available.

 

  • Sound and Vision, available here
  • Communications and Broadcasting, available here
  • Marconi Companies and Their People, available here

 

 

Further readings

 

Eric Hitchen joined Marconi in 1951, initially in Radar but soon moved to Marconi College where he was asked to teach Television!  His career blossomed and soon he was off to Australia where he later joined AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australia) who at that time were Marconi's agents.  This booklet is an oral history of Eric's life and a great read.

 

There is also a great book entitled "Spinning Discs, Mirrors and Electrons" by Messrs. Robert Forster and Douglas Grant published in 2011.  An introduction to it is available here.  This book can be purchased in both digital download (PDF) and hardback forms from the Lulu website here.

 

Another book "HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU - the story of British Television 1908-1939 by Bruce Norman - text version here

 

 

Other Reference material

 

Television Pioneers - Australia.  Members of the television community past and present.  Click here for details.

 

A significant record of BBC Engineering activities between 1980 and 1993 click here

 

BBC Year books between 1928 and 1977, also some feature subjects click here

 

A time capsule of the BBC at Alexandra Palace click here

 

Reminiscences of some BBC Transmitter projects (ongoing) click here

 

1964 CCTV and Community events click here

 

The Collections - East Anglia Film Archive click here

 

UK Broadcast Manufacturers - a paper presented at an IEE Colloquium 1997 - copyright IET - click here

 

A YouTube  Video from Australia on Mk.IV and Mk. VIII Cameras  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSEh4DgGYE

 

Television is here again

 

This is a seven part series produced by the BBC when television was restarted in 1946 after WWII.

 

Part 1

 

Part 2

 

Part 3

 

Part 4

 

Part 5

 

Part 6

 

Part 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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