...The Invention of Television Language Arts The Invention of Television You use this all the time, it is part of your everyday life, it can even teach you how to do things, and it is called the Television (TV). The TV is in every house, but people do not usually ask who invented it. The first all-electric TV was invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The TV had already been invented by others, but Mr. Farnsworth was the one to use electrons to send the pictures. He is no longer alive, but is famous for many inventions. Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born in Beaver, Utah on August 19, 1906. He learned to play the violin and liked music. He went to Rigby High School and Brigham Young University. He married Elma Gardner Farnsworth on May 26, 1926 Farnsworth died on March 11, 1971 at 64 years old from pneumonia. Mr. Farnsworth is buried in Provo, Utah. Philo Taylor Farnsworth moved to a new home with his family in 1918 to Rigby, Idaho. On the way he dreamed of making inventions. In the attic of the new house he found some science magazines. He read the science magazines and learned about the TV and many other inventions. After reading the science magazines he decide he could make TV better. He applied for patents for the TV in 1927 and got them in 1930. In 1939 the TV was shown at the World’s Fair in Queens, New York. Philo Taylor Farnsworth was walking behind the plow horses when he saw the rows in the dirt and thought of the idea of electrons lining...
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...Throughout the human history, there have been hundreds and thousands of inventions that have been created to change our lives. One of the greatest inventions is technologies such as cell phones, computers, TV and ect. In this modern world, people are constantly immersed in technological advancement that promotes nonstop communication, like social media and texting. As technology keeps advancing, more and more people became dependent as they are using it in their everyday life. First off, the invention of TV has a significant effect on us. TV can give us a wide source of knowledge and entertainment; because of its large network of information. TV may not the newest invention, but people never have stopped to innovate it. They added special TV programs that can help benefit learners like news, documentaries, movies and educational channels. TV is such a cheap and convenient tool to have. It communicates with the world and provides the latest news on what’s happening anytime anywhere. Technology such as internet plays a significant role in communication of people’s today. Instead of writing letters that can take days to deliver, just with a single tap, a simply command, the message can be sent to someone on the other side of planet. Internet can be used as a tool to keep in touch with friends and families; you can send emails, use voice chat, or even web cam. Technology is monumentally beneficial; it opens many doors to education; establish connections with family and friends...
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...Describe a TV presenter Well, there are so many different TV programs on show everyday in diversified channels; hence there are thousands and thousands of TV presenters we can see. Some may leave us a very deep impression while others may not leave a thing in our mind. Here, I’d like to talk about the TV presenter I love, Wu Zongxian, although others may have a mixed feeling about him. Being a TV presenter in Taiwan, Wu started his career in the field of variety shows in the late 1980s, and then he became famous because of his unique style of hosting TV programs and therefore the TV programs he hosted are constantly ahead in the ratings. All these earn him the top salary among those TV presenters in Taiwan, being the local king for many rs. In 2008, he even won the Golden Bell Awards in television industry. His fast reaction and tactfulness in hosting is among the first class, second to few others, and gradually, he formed his own style of hosting TV programs. Because he likes to use those popular words on the internet, and his figure is not like other middle-aged men, he is quite popular among the young audience. However, he also likes to rip on people, open the low gun, speak nonsense, and disrespect women, which, meanwhile, bring him a lot of criticisms. Thanks to the change of the criteria of assessment, Wu was nominated three times for the best TV presenter in 2006,2007 and 2008, and successfully won the golden bell award in 2008 with the popular program “guess, guess...
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...CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY Cause and Effect Essay Definition: In this kind of essay, the aim is to explain the causes (reasons) or the effects (results) of an event or situation. e.g. Causes of air pollution (multiple factors leading to air pollution). e.g. Effects of watching too much TV (many effects of a situation). Sometimes an event causes something to happen, and that situation leads to another event, and it causes another event to happen. This is called the causal chain or domino effect. e.g. Use of deodorants will bring the end of the world. There may be several causes or effects of a situation. However, in a student essay, it is advisable to keep the number of major points to 2 or 3, which form separate developmental paragraphs. Organization: Depending on the topic, there may be three patterns of organization: 1. Multiple causes-->effect In this pattern, the organization is as follows: thesis statement: Air pollution is caused by the following factors: exhaust gases from cars, uncontrolled factory releases, and burning of low-quality coal for heating. I. exhaust gases from cars A. government does not have enough control B. citizens are not conscientious II. uncontrolled factory gases A. no regular checks on gases released B. factories are inside the borders of residential areas III. burning of low-quality coal for heating A. no governmental control B. other forms of energy too expensive Each developmental paragraph is devoted to one of the causes of air pollution. Each...
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...The Invention of Television Student’s name: Ahmed masoud Al Reyami H00134790 Fahad Ahmed H00247616 Abdullah yaqoob Mrs.: Julie Richards The Invention of Television ------------------------------------------------- When you ask the question--who invented television, you may get a few different answers! Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television. * In Sorbonne, France1922, Edwin Belin, an Englishman, who held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar, demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television. * John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and entrepreneur who achieved his first transmissions of simple face shapes in 1924 using mechanical television and he held his first public demonstration of 'television' at the London department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. * Zworykin is usually credited as being the father of modern television, he demonstrates electronic television in 1927. * Another inventor was William Horner he began invented Tv In 1834, allows moments of darkness and create illusion of movement. * But the first TV was invented in 1950 by Philo Farnsworth, at his age of 12,he build an electronic motor and produced the first electronic washing mechanism his family had over owned and in 1930, he won a patent for his all electronic...
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...CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY Cause and Effect Essay Definition: In this kind of essay, the aim is to explain the causes (reasons) or the effects (results) of an event or situation. e.g. Causes of air pollution (multiple factors leading to air pollution). e.g. Effects of watching too much TV (many effects of a situation). Sometimes an event causes something to happen, and that situation leads to another event, and it causes another event to happen. This is called the causal chain or domino effect. e.g. Use of deodorants will bring the end of the world. There may be several causes or effects of a situation. However, in a student essay, it is advisable to keep the number of major points to 2 or 3, which form separate developmental paragraphs. Organization: Depending on the topic, there may be three patterns of organization: 1. Multiple causes-->effect In this pattern, the organization is as follows: thesis statement: Air pollution is caused by the following factors: exhaust gases from cars, uncontrolled factory releases, and burning of low-quality coal for heating. I. exhaust gases from cars A. government does not have enough control B. citizens are not conscientious II. uncontrolled factory gases A. no regular checks on gases released B. factories are inside the borders of residential areas III. burning of low-quality coal for heating A. no governmental control B. other forms of energy too expensive Each developmental paragraph is devoted to one of the causes of air pollution. Each...
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...credit any individuals with the credit of the actual invention of Television. There many discussions and ideas thrown around about television but when it came to building them, there were 2 types Mechanical and Electronic. Mechanical Television The first mechanical TV systems that produced real television images were developed by John Logie Baird in England and by Charles Francis Jenkins in the US. Picture quality was very poor and the screens were only about an inch wide and was made of 30 to 60 line compared to our tvs now that are about 525 lines. The TVs used a motor to rotate a metal disk to give us picture, with a neon tube behind the disk to give us light. In 1931 there were 25 stations in the US and serveral manufactures were selling the sets. The first person to watch television was Murray Mercier from Columbus Ohio. Because of the poor picture, mechanical television was a failure and by 1933 almost all US stations were off the air. Mechanical television stayed on air in England till 1935. Electronic Television Electronic television is based on the invention of cathode ray tube, which is the tube found in modern TVs. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth invented a special camera tube that was able to electronically transmit signals. Philo had created the first electronic television system, which did away with the rotating disks and other mechanical aspects of mechanical television. The picture being showed in these new TVs were better because they now had over 400 lines...
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...behind its back and has walked a long way to be transformed into this large communication connection we all live with today. Like all stories with a beginning, media started in the early years of 3000 B.C with the introduction of the alphabet, devised by the Semites (“Major Events in the History of Mass Communications”, n.d.). During this early era of media, not only the early form of paper was invented by the Egyptians, but the printing method was created. Johannes Gutenberg, with his printing invention, opened “the possibility of distributing identical messages to many people located in different places" (Bogart, 1991, p. 63) - this big step would really begin mass media, giving it a start to the printing production of books. A follow up century which would take a big leap in the media history is the Telegraph Era. From 1800s to 1900s the first telegraph line would be first introduced by Samuel Morse, along with the invention of the telephone and radio. These inventions took media development into a big significant time in which more and more people would gain the opportunity to communicate and be heard. As the telegraph, telephone, and radio became an important part of media, in the beginning of the 1900s, the industrial revolution Era would bring T.V, radio, and film into a big transformation. First animated features would take movies’ old photographic film into movies with more details and speed. Like the film, T.V. would walk through a...
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...immediate and updated information to spread quickly within the community. For centuries, the news played a very important role in our daily lives. Whether it is a report on the latest matches score between our favorite football teams, weather forecast, information on election campaigns, or news on the recent death of a well-known celebrity, we always come back for more. Nevertheless, from the traditional role of messengers to recent digital age, the principle of news still remains the same;- providing the masses with the latest and current events of today’s world, be it through printed newspaper, broadcast, internet or oral messaging (word-of-mouth). Spreading news is without doubt one of the oldest human activities ever exist. Before the invention of newspaper in the early age, authorities appointed third-party messengers to bring word, spreading news and updated information. Some of these messengers traveled nearly thousand miles to deliver the news to the receivers. Most of the times, there were related to diplomatic, economic and political issues. After a well-formed country was established, only then the people started to exchange updated news among them in a larger scale than before. Before writing became a common skill to master, human beings spread news by word of mouth on crossroads, at alleys or markets. The messengers came back from battlefields to their homeland only to report on victories or defeats to the commoners. Other than that, people also hired criers to announce...
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...for what television and communication really was, is and still may become. Using Economic, Social factors and course material, this essay will prove why these factors are important towards the development of what is now television. If we compare and contrast the definitions of what television was upon its creation compared to what television is now, we will have two completely different answers. Television in the early stages was simply the transferring and receiving of moving images through telecommunications (Dienst, 3-12 A), now television has evolved in a multiplatform medium. The word “evolve” is being used heavily, for the reason that television equipped with technology is forever changing. In (Dienst, 3-12 A) Williams says TV is hard to describe because “ it never is, its always becoming”. Which has lead to its growth in our society at such a rapid pace. Television is responsible for numerous factors in the world, if not one of thee most important. Moving images were originated as three a communicative means which are Amplification, Durative and, Alternative which when understood have greating correlation to McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message” (Dienst, 25-33 A). Williams theory on communicative means as a device was ground breaking because, it allowed Williams to understand how certain messages and...
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...The five most important technological advances in Electronic Communication are the telegraph, the telephone, radio/TV, the internet, and cell phones. 1. The telegraph (in my opinion) is by far the most important electronic communications development in our history. For millennia societies have communicated over long distances strictly using the physical environment; smoke screens, reflected light, pyres, etc., have been used long before electric technology was introduced. While effective, the physical environment can only “reach” so far; the electric telegraph enabled entire regions, countries, and governments to connect instantly. The ability to send messages- or simply communicate- via electric wires was undoubtedly the fastest leap communications has ever seen; in a matter of decades the world was covered in wires. The telegraph enabled globalization, better government communications, and a widespread need to speak to one another. While the telegraph is somewhat obsolete today, the invention opened the door to the telephone, the radio, and (quite literally) laid the foundation of all electric communications. http://classroom.synonym.com/significance-samuel-morse-inventing-telegraph-10183.html http://history1800s.about.com/od/inventioninnovation/a/telegraph01.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy 2. The second most important electronic development would be the telephone. Founded on the same ideas as the telegraph, the telephone enabled people to literally “send”...
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...media begins with print media, which includes books, magazines and newspapers. Books are considered the oldest form of media as it exists since the invention of writing systems and they were copied by hand till middle 15th century. Books were used mostly to store religious and sacred writings, so they were hardly considered as a mass medium. As time passed, the techniques of printing were developed. Many sources claimed that the world's earliest dated printed book was known as "Diamond Sutra". It was printed in China in 868 A.D. using woodblock printing technique. However, it has been said that many books were published way before this time. Around 1040 A.D., the world's first known movable type system for printing was invented in China. China made little use of their invention because literacy was not widespread, so there was little demand for mass printing of books. But the printing technology was spread rapidly across Europe. In 1400 A.D., a German goldsmith, Johannes Gutenberg had invented printing press machine with movable type which allowed books to be reproduced in masses. The first book printed with this technique is The Bible. With the printing press technology, books can be printed quickly and with less effort, hence the cost of bookmaking reduced and this made books available for a much bigger audience. The invention of printing technology has a dramatic impact on the Europe civilization. As information and ideas were able to be spread more quickly and accurately...
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...World history Topic:- History of Electronic Media Submitted to:- Sir Altaf Submitted by:- Alina Zaidi I.D #:- 110177007 University of Management & Technology History of electronic media The television has become such an integral part of homes in the modern world that it is hard to imagine life without television. The boob tube, as television is also referred to, provides entertainment to people of all ages. Not just for entertainment value, but TV is also a valuable resource for advertising and different kinds of programming. The television as we see it and know it today was not always this way. Let’s take a brief look at the history of television and how it came into being. Timeline of TV History Different experiments by various people, in the field of electricity and radio, led to the development of basic technologies and ideas that laid the foundation for the invention of television. In the late 1800s, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a student in Germany, developed the first ever mechanical module of television. He succeeded in sending images through wires with the help of a rotating metal disk. This technology was called the ‘electric telescope’ that had 18 lines of resolution. Around 1907, two separate inventors, A.A. Campbell-Swinton from England and Russian scientist Boris Rosing, used the cathode ray tube in addition to the mechanical scanner system, to create a new television system. From the experiments of Nipkow and Rosing, two types of television systems...
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...but when people spread out, a kind indirect communication was needed. Thus we created (or rather, hired) the messenger. (Necessity is the mother of invention.) This evolved later into a postal service, connected around the world by a network of synchronized offices of a similar nature. For thousands of years, indirect communication was the only way to communicate over long distances. Once the telegraph came along, however, people were able to instantly communicate information over long distances. This evolved somewhat into the telephone, which spawned the radio and television. As these were developed, the efficiency and clarity of these transmissions improved, and this allowed the world to know what was happening anywhere else in the world at any given time. At this same time, programmable computers were finally coming to be used. Information was input to these machines and stored on tapes that could be put onto different computers to be run. This paralleled postal mail in a form of indirect communication. However, computers were also already based in intercommunication, because computers are systems of smaller functioning devices connected to perform a function or process. The evolution of computers’ communicating then evolved by extending direct connections between these large systems, sharing information. With the invention of the modem, computers could communicate piggybacking a...
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...vital role. The way we communicate was transformed by the information age which opened the doors to a whole new world of possibilities. A few decades ago our telecommunications flourished with the invention of the television, the radio and the phonograph, which functioned based on an analog format. These inventions allowed for broadcast of radio and television news and shows across the United States. Record music and movies in VHS format were also introduced to American homes. With the introduction of the digital format our telecommunications received a tremendous boost, and some of the early media outlets were replaced by more efficient ways of communication. This paper will describe some of the factors behind the recent loss of audience and sales in such media outlets as record music, movies, network TV, DVDs and video games. The introduction of the digital format changed the way we watch TV; high definition made possible to see a picture like never before, like if we were looking through a window. Digitalization allowed for a much better sound and picture quality in CDs and DVDs, which replaced the vinyl disc and the VHS tape. These media, however, continued to evolution so much so that in recent years media outlets such as newspapers, movies, network TV, DVDs and video games became obsolete. Digital is the key factor. Media outlets such as newspapers, movies, DVDs and video games are more tangible and cost more money to produce. These tangible versions...
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