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.

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.

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.

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.

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.