Wow I have so much love and respect for older people. Kinda random question. What was it like when it came out. Was it something people thought wouldn't last, were u eager to have one, how much did the cost(if u remember). How long till u got your first tv,
My family couldn't afford a tv when they first came out. It was costly for families initially since it was so new.
I was fourth of six siblings, but at the time my youngest brother wasn't born yet. I was in preschool when it first came out. We used to go over to the neighbor's home to watch it. But my older sibs really got addicted and were there almost daily. I don't really know how people felt about it but the first tvs that came out They were more like furniture and everything of course was in black and white. No news that I remember at that time, but sitcoms mostly and tv shows for kids (Clara Bell and Howdy Doody were one of our favs).
When we finally got our own, my dad called it the boob tube since we were all glued to it like honey. We grew up watching tv. Loved the Lone Ranger, Cowboy and Indian shows, and the Lucille and Desi Arnez show. No one slept in a double bed at the time... even married peeps slept in twin beds separately.
Funny thing is my mother in law never got over listening to the radio. She watched some tv but preferred listening to the radio. She had it dialed in on talk radio almost twenty four seven.
We still own the first personal IBM computers that came out. We have two of the first 10 built and sold at the Sears stores. The one with single disc drives that were first personal computers. You had to program them at time with code since there was no windows. My husband started a business to add a second drive and sell them to businesses. We also provided software and I taught them how to use the software. We made good money those two years but then moved. Eventually the systems got so complicated even we don't understand them as much and I am not as computer literate as I was when they first came out.
I remember the 1953 Coronation of QE2, I remember Buster Crabb shoes, I remember Clarabell and Howdy Doody; kinda hard to see the details on a small screen, but it filled the gap between the Sunday funnies.. My family had a good breadwinner that worked for Omar Bakery and could afford the marvel called TV.
Early kids shows were great fun if you could wiggle the antenna-BTW, "digital air TV is really a step back in technology what with planes trucks and buses messing with the signal strength.. 🤔
No sir, you are incorrect. It was invented 95 years ago and became available for most families 85 years ago.
Here are the details:
When did TV become available to the public?
The First Television Sets in America were shown off to the public in September, 1928.
It would take until 1938, however, before American electronic television sets were produced and released commercially. They were an instant hit after release.
Just asked my Dad when he first saw a TV. He was born in February 1939 and the first TV he saw he thinks was in 1949 or 50. His family got their first TV when he was around 15. He grew up in a middle class family in Detroit.
My mother was born in 1923 and she was one of 10 children born to European immigrants who raised them on a farm in Pennsylvania. Her dad also worked in the steel mill. She remembered they were able to bring electricity to the farm sometime in the late 1930s. She remembers there was a TV in the home by the time she married in 1943. (She's dead now, but I remember her stories.)
So, TV was invented, but not everyone got one in their home for various reasons. Most relied on the radio and newspapers for their news. The TV became more popular as time went on and more people saved up to buy this new 'luxury'.
The word television comes from the Greek prefix tele and the Latin word vision or “seeing from a distance.” The TV camera converts images into electrical impulses, which are sent along cables, or by radio waves, or satellite to a television receiver where they are changed back into a picture.
As with most inventions, television’s development depended upon previous inventions, and more than one individual contributed to the development of television, as we know it today. In England in 1878, John L.Baird, a Scottish amateur scientist, successfully transmitted the first TV picture, after years of work, in 1926, with his mechanical system. Baird’s system used a mechanical camera consisting of a large spinning disc, with a spiral of holes that Paul Nipkow had developed in 1884. This old mechanical technology was quickly replaced by superior electronic television. Philo Farnsworth successfully demonstrated electronic television in San Francisco, in 1927.
Farnsworth, at age 15 began imagining ways that electronic television could work. One day while working in the fields among rows of vegetables, he was inspired. He realized that a picture could be dissected by a simple television camera into a series of lines of electricity. The lines would be transmitted so quickly that the eyes would merge the lines. Then, a cathode ray tube television receiver would change those lines back into a picture. Initially, television was available only in black and white, even though experiments with color began in the 1920s; however, the common person could not buy a color television until 1953. https://www.knowitall.org/document/television-invention-kids-work
In a communist country, I saw B+W tv in 1963, & in the US in 1967. - BUT since God created me highly Visual (both near & Far) plus as a positive & constructive sister, I dumped the TV & in our UNschooling we never used that darn tv. We prefer creating our own visions to Praise God.
Well being 70 I AM older than television. But it came out when I was a little kid.
But you are here at GAW which means you are based my fren.
Wow I have so much love and respect for older people. Kinda random question. What was it like when it came out. Was it something people thought wouldn't last, were u eager to have one, how much did the cost(if u remember). How long till u got your first tv,
My family couldn't afford a tv when they first came out. It was costly for families initially since it was so new.
I was fourth of six siblings, but at the time my youngest brother wasn't born yet. I was in preschool when it first came out. We used to go over to the neighbor's home to watch it. But my older sibs really got addicted and were there almost daily. I don't really know how people felt about it but the first tvs that came out They were more like furniture and everything of course was in black and white. No news that I remember at that time, but sitcoms mostly and tv shows for kids (Clara Bell and Howdy Doody were one of our favs).
When we finally got our own, my dad called it the boob tube since we were all glued to it like honey. We grew up watching tv. Loved the Lone Ranger, Cowboy and Indian shows, and the Lucille and Desi Arnez show. No one slept in a double bed at the time... even married peeps slept in twin beds separately.
Funny thing is my mother in law never got over listening to the radio. She watched some tv but preferred listening to the radio. She had it dialed in on talk radio almost twenty four seven.
We still own the first personal IBM computers that came out. We have two of the first 10 built and sold at the Sears stores. The one with single disc drives that were first personal computers. You had to program them at time with code since there was no windows. My husband started a business to add a second drive and sell them to businesses. We also provided software and I taught them how to use the software. We made good money those two years but then moved. Eventually the systems got so complicated even we don't understand them as much and I am not as computer literate as I was when they first came out.
Wow this is such awesome testimony thanks for sharing. It's like looking back in time. God bless u fren. Love u
I remember the 1953 Coronation of QE2, I remember Buster Crabb shoes, I remember Clarabell and Howdy Doody; kinda hard to see the details on a small screen, but it filled the gap between the Sunday funnies.. My family had a good breadwinner that worked for Omar Bakery and could afford the marvel called TV.
Early kids shows were great fun if you could wiggle the antenna-BTW, "digital air TV is really a step back in technology what with planes trucks and buses messing with the signal strength.. 🤔
No sir, you are incorrect. It was invented 95 years ago and became available for most families 85 years ago.
Here are the details:
When did TV become available to the public?
The First Television Sets in America were shown off to the public in September, 1928.
It would take until 1938, however, before American electronic television sets were produced and released commercially. They were an instant hit after release.
Just asked my Dad when he first saw a TV. He was born in February 1939 and the first TV he saw he thinks was in 1949 or 50. His family got their first TV when he was around 15. He grew up in a middle class family in Detroit.
My mother was born in 1923 and she was one of 10 children born to European immigrants who raised them on a farm in Pennsylvania. Her dad also worked in the steel mill. She remembered they were able to bring electricity to the farm sometime in the late 1930s. She remembers there was a TV in the home by the time she married in 1943. (She's dead now, but I remember her stories.)
So, TV was invented, but not everyone got one in their home for various reasons. Most relied on the radio and newspapers for their news. The TV became more popular as time went on and more people saved up to buy this new 'luxury'.
The word television comes from the Greek prefix tele and the Latin word vision or “seeing from a distance.” The TV camera converts images into electrical impulses, which are sent along cables, or by radio waves, or satellite to a television receiver where they are changed back into a picture.
As with most inventions, television’s development depended upon previous inventions, and more than one individual contributed to the development of television, as we know it today. In England in 1878, John L.Baird, a Scottish amateur scientist, successfully transmitted the first TV picture, after years of work, in 1926, with his mechanical system. Baird’s system used a mechanical camera consisting of a large spinning disc, with a spiral of holes that Paul Nipkow had developed in 1884. This old mechanical technology was quickly replaced by superior electronic television. Philo Farnsworth successfully demonstrated electronic television in San Francisco, in 1927.
Farnsworth, at age 15 began imagining ways that electronic television could work. One day while working in the fields among rows of vegetables, he was inspired. He realized that a picture could be dissected by a simple television camera into a series of lines of electricity. The lines would be transmitted so quickly that the eyes would merge the lines. Then, a cathode ray tube television receiver would change those lines back into a picture. Initially, television was available only in black and white, even though experiments with color began in the 1920s; however, the common person could not buy a color television until 1953. https://www.knowitall.org/document/television-invention-kids-work
In a communist country, I saw B+W tv in 1963, & in the US in 1967. - BUT since God created me highly Visual (both near & Far) plus as a positive & constructive sister, I dumped the TV & in our UNschooling we never used that darn tv. We prefer creating our own visions to Praise God.