http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/12/early-days-at-brooklyn-tech/ Frederik Pohl Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/12/early-days-at-brooklyn-tech/#comment-40352 Dwight Decker Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:38:06 +0000 http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/?p=3262#comment-40352 I have a facsimile reprint of the pulp magazine MIRACLE SCIENCE & FANTASY STORIES #2 from 1931, and there's a full-page ad for the Coyne Electrical School in Chicago. Even then, Coyne was offering instruction in not only electrical and radio but television technology as well. The ad shows a photo captioned, "Student working on television transmitter in Coyne Radio Shop" and there's an optimistic blurb: "And now Television is here!" I know TV research was going on in the '20s, but it's a little astonishing to see things were that far along as early as 1931. Who knew it would take more than fifteen years after that for TV to even begin to penetrate the mass market...? I have a facsimile reprint of the pulp magazine MIRACLE SCIENCE & FANTASY STORIES #2 from 1931, and there’s a full-page ad for the Coyne Electrical School in Chicago. Even then, Coyne was offering instruction in not only electrical and radio but television technology as well. The ad shows a photo captioned, “Student working on television transmitter in Coyne Radio Shop” and there’s an optimistic blurb: “And now Television is here!” I know TV research was going on in the ’20s, but it’s a little astonishing to see things were that far along as early as 1931. Who knew it would take more than fifteen years after that for TV to even begin to penetrate the mass market…?

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