The Miracle of Television

And the marvel of Lissajous figures

These images are the logo of a 1949 book titled *The Miracle of Television*. I wasn’t sure if the logo was specific to the book, or was more broadly that of the publisher, Wilcox & Follett Co. Two friends (Deb Chachra and Jason Richardson) explained they are Lissajous figures, meaning they’re almost certainly specific to the book.

*The Miracle of Television* was published in 1949, or 21 years prior to Harlan Ellison’s *The Glass Teat*, which could have been titled *The Misfortune of Television* (“ours has become a society where shadow and reality intermix to the final elimination of any degree of rational selectivity on the part of those whose lives are manipulated”).

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