SCHÖFFLER, Benedict.

Die Phototelegraphie und das Elektrische Fernsehen.

Wien und Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1898. 8vo, pp. 27, with a lithographic frontispiece and a large folding plate; unopened in the original wrappers. A treatise by a German artillery officer on the electrical transmission of images, occasioned by newspaper reports of Jan Szczepanik's invention. 'On February 24, 1897, Jan Szczepanik and Ludwig Kleinberg of Austria applied for a patent for a method and apparatus for reproducing pictures and the like at a distance by means of electricity. (In Britain, this was the first television patent aplied for.)' (Abramson p. 21, describing the apparatus). The progenitor of television was suitably gigantic: the folding plate illustrates a scanner nearly twice a man's height. Only one copy in NUC; WU.

• GBP 750.00 > Andere Währungen
• Bestellnummer: SW214

• Antiquariat: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)