The Dawn of TV

Articles

• Wireless World, Using a micro to process 30-line Baird Television Recordings, Oct 1983, pp.66-70
• Radio & Electronics World, Moving Pictures from Wax – Phonovision, Feb 1984, pp.61-63
• Electronics World, 1 – The Dawn Of Television, Sep 1998
• Electronics World, 2 – Restoring Baird’s Image, Oct 1998
• Electronics World, 3 – First Frames, Nov 1998
• Electronics World, 4 – Looking In…, Dec 1998
• Electronics World, 5 – Digital Visions, Feb 1999
• The Television Age, D F McLean, IEE, 8th July 2000, IEE Millennium Weekend (©IEE 2000)
• Restoring Baird’s Image, D F McLean, IEE Review, Sep 2000 (©IEE 2000)

Papers

• Computer-based analysis and restoration of Baird 30-line television recordings, D F McLean, Journal of the Royal Television Society, Vol 22/2 April 1985 pp87-94 [2.9 MB]
• The Recovery of Phonovision, D F McLean, Third Intl Conf on Image Processing and its Applications, IEE Conf Publ 307 pp 300-304, July 1989
• The Achievement of Television: the quality and features of John Logie Baird’s system in 1926, D F McLean, Intl J of Hist of Eng Tech, Vol 84 No 2, July 2014, 227-247 DOI: 10.1179/1758120614Z.00000000048
• The Great British Broadcasting Competition: a multi-disciplinary analysis of the emergence of BBC television, D F McLean, Media History, Vol 24, No 1 , 46-70 (published online April 2017).  DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2017.1312319
• Investigations into the Emergence of British Television 1926-1936, D F McLean, PhD Thesis, Aberystwyth University, Nov 2017
• Seeing Across Oceans: John Logie Baird’s 1928 Trans-Atlantic Television Demonstration, D F McLean, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol 107/6, 1206-1218 (published online May 30, 2019) DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2019.2911770