How Television Has Changed Over The Years

Television has been a great factor in our lives and has developed drastically over the years. The technology of television influenced inventors and families to the way we perceive, share information and connect humanity, with television, it brought drastic effects to our lives.

Since the first invention of the television in 1884, we’ve seen the television evolve and develop over the years. Unlike today’s television made of plastic and aluminum, the first television was made of high quality materials such as: wood, metal and glass. It was heavy, clunky and not very appealing to the eye, it can only do so much, but illuminate images using an electric telescope.

The idea and concept was made possible by German Inventor Paul Nipkow who happen

In 1926, Philo a young teenage farmer, who by a curious eye discovered the same phenomena of “Persistent of vision” and “Progressive image” by gazing out in his corn field in which he saw that an image stuck on to him by scanning each aisle of the field, this was merely a coincidence. Since Fansworth attend Brigham University, he studied and learned physics for two years, “until the death of his father in where he dropped out of school in 1929” (Bradley) On his final year of school, Fansworth used his knowledge to put together a drawing of what Fansworth imagined three years earlier, an image displayed via vacuum tube on a electrically charged displayed showing fast moving images which then can be displayed all over the world via radio signal.

This is when the popular television set took off, but unfortunately for Fansworth, Radio Cooperation of America patent many of already known technology such as radio hardware and a similar, stolen vacuum tube idea in which the founder of RCA David Sarnoof hired scientist to make a television off Fansworth technology, but with added new technology to dodge Fansworths old patents. “Fansworth invention was short lived and that’s when RCA took off with their own television sets for sale making a huge impact in the market bringing in many buyers.” (Magoun