The average American spends anywhere from two and a half hours up to five hours a day watching their television (Dunne, n.d.). The television is a technology device that is always changing and it is important to the daily lives of many Americans (Johnson, 2013). This being said, it is difficult to imagine what the first television was like when it was invented. The first television that worked was an electromechanical system and it did not use a motor-generator that is used in some televisions (AITpro, 2010). The television that is known today was created because many inventors’ had technology improvements and all of them came together to create a new idea to the people in the world (AITpro, 2010). The first television that was performed correctly, was produced in San Francisco around 1927 by a twenty-one-year-old inventor, Philo Farnsworth. Farnsworth grew up in a house that did not have electricity until he reached age fourteen (Stephens, n.d.). His first successful demonstration of the television was one that could catch the moving picture in a way that could be put into radio waves. Once it was transformed into radio waves it could be displayed into a picture on the screen …show more content…
Around 1920, when the television first started, it was known as a radio that contained pictures. The major inventor Philo Farnsworth, had transmitted an image of a straight line from a room in a San Francisco laboratory to another room (Robinson, 2015). This was the first electronic television that started in the United States. The television was worked on by Boris Rosing in Russia sixteen years ahead of the time that Farnsworth had began working on it. There were also some other inventors in the 1920s, like John Logie Baird and Charles Francis, but despite their efforts, Farnsworth is the inventor who receives credit for the television (Stephens,