EOTO Television

            The first Television was invented in 1928 by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Farnsworth was just 21 years old when he invented the first all-electric vision image. He lived in a house without electricity until he was 14 years-old. It’s crazy to think that the man who is the reason you are able to watch T.V today lived without electricity for the first 14 years of his life. The original utility of a television was delivering images to a screen. In the 1920’s, the word “television” meant a device that mechanically scanned an image through a spinning disc with holes cut in it then projected a tiny unstable reproduction of what was being scanned onto a screen. Farnsworth imagined a tube that could electronically reproduce images by shooting a beam of electrons against a light sensitive screen in a straight line. Therefore, the first “television” system broadcast was a straight-line photo transmitted in black and white. Farnsworth used a cathode ray tube in order to produce this image. It took years before he could transmit something that was worth being marketed to a consumer. By the end of the 1920’s there were only a few dozen televisions in the world which were all in research labs. However, the development of the Television was disrupted by World War II. After the war was over, a new and improved version of the television was in the making. This television was found in homes and in the workplace. If you had a television in your home back then, you were considered very rich and wealthy. Now a days, it’s expected for people to have a television in their house and most homes have multiple televisions. In the 1950’s, the television really influenced public opinion through advertising and propaganda. In 1953, the first television that was able to produce images in color was invented. In the 2000’s, they started converting away from SDTV (Standard Vision Television) and HDTV (High Standard Television) was invented. Today, HDTV is basically all we know. From is lowly start at an RCA research lab, to becoming the throne of the living room, the television has changed dramatically, but it remained true to its original utility: delivering images to a screen.

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