Further Reading

This document summarises work done by the author in researching this subject. Apart from references to material published in the 1920's, all other material was discovered by the author ably assisted by the (surviving) pioneers of British Television.

For more details on recovering early TV recordings consult:

  • 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
  • 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 Series of Articles in Electronics World: Sep 98 through Jan 99
  • The Television Age, D F McLean, IEE, 8th July 2000, IEE Millennium Weekend
  • Restoring Baird's Image, D F McLean, IEE Review, Sep 2000
  • Restoring Baird's Image, D F McLean, IEE, ISBN 0 85296 795 0, Sep 2000

Downloadable documents (in Acrobat PDF format):

For more on the experimental work of Baird, consult:

  • Dinsdale, Television , 2nd edn 1928
  • Moseley & Barton-Chapple, Television Today and Tomorrow, 2nd edn 1931
  • Report of 1st General Meeting, Television, June 1928, pp14
  • Visit to Baird Labs, J A Fleming, Television, July 1928, pp6-7

For the most authoritative and accurate account of the work of the Baird Company, consult:

  • R M Herbert, Seeing by Wireless, published by the author, 1996

For the definitive account of Campbell-Swinton, consult:

  • T H Bridgewater OBE, Royal Television Society Monograph 1, 1982: A A Campbell Swinton

For the best accounts of BBC 30-line television in the 1930's, consult:

  • John Swift, Adventure in Vision - the first 25 years of Television, Lehmann 1950
  • Gordon Ross, Television Jubilee, W H Allen 1961
  • T H Bridgewater OBE, Just a Few Lines, Supplement to Bulletin of British Vintage Wireless Society, August 1992
  • Bruce Norman, Here's Looking at You, BBC & Royal Television Society, 1984 (Available as on-screen read-only Adobe Acrobat PDF files on the CD: The Dawn of Television Remembered)

For more general reference information on historic television consult:

  • Abramson, The History of Television, 1880 to 1941, McFarland 1987
  • Burns R W, British Television, the Formative Years, Peregrinus 1986
  • Burns R W, Television - an international history of the formative years, Peregrinus 1998 ISBN 0 85296 914 7
  • Shiers G, Early Television - A Bibliographic Guide to 1940, Garland Publishing 1997 ISBN 0-8240-7782-2

Links to Sites covering Early Television

Other Pages

Main Index, | The World's FIRST TV Recordings, | Early Television History, | The Earliest Recording of Broadcast TV: Silvatone 1933, | The First Recording to be Sold - Major Radiovision 1934 | the "Marcus Games" Discs

Other Phonovision Pages

What we have Learned, | Phonovision in Print, | The Phonovision Discs, | The Recovered Images, | The First TV Recording Studio

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Last updated by Don McLean on 22 March 2006