Abstract
(1) PROF. SCHRÖTER and the authoritative collaborators whom he has gathered round him for this important book have done a great service to the study of the scientific and technical foundations of picture telegraphy and television. This is no mere compilation from the scattered literature of these two aspects of a single problem; it is a well-knit collection of original discussions, by recognised experts of wide experience, of the fundamental physics of the subject and of the practical engineering progress achieved. It clears television of much of the empiricism and wrong thinking which has characterised the somewhat unhappy history of that most attractive of subjects; it might have been modelled on the best interpretation of the startling but, within the implied limits, perfectly fair sentence which Prof. Karolus uses in his introductory note to the book, “Es gibt nichts Wunderbares”.
(1) Handbuch der Bildtelegraphie und des Fernsehens: Grundlagen, Entwicklungsziele und Grenzen der elektrischen Bildfernübertragung.
Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. Prof. Fritz Schröter. Pp. xvi + 487. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932.) 58 gold marks.
(2) Tonfilm: Aufnahme und Wiedergabe nach dem Klangfilm- Verfahren.
(System Klangfilm-Tobis.) Herausgegeben für die Klangfilm G.m.b.H., Berlin, von Dr. F. Fischer and Dr. H. Lichte. Pp. xi + 455. (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1931.) 27 gold marks.
(3) Einführung in die Tonphotographie: photographische Grundlagen der Lichtton-Aufzeichnung.
Von Prof. Dr. John Eggert Dr. Richard Schmidt. Pp. vi + 137. (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1932.) 7 gold marks.
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(1) Handbuch der Bildtelegraphie und des Fernsehens: Grundlagen, Entwicklungsziele und Grenzen der elektrischen Bildfernübertragung (2) Tonfilm: Aufnahme und Wiedergabe nach dem Klangfilm- Verfahren (3) Einführung in die Tonphotographie: photographische Grundlagen der Lichtton-Aufzeichnung. Nature 131, 781–782 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131781a0
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