HISTORY OF T.V

For our piece of technology we have chosen the Television (TV). We Choose the TV because it has become an everyday product in our life today. Television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. It was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. He was only 21 years old and from England. It was thought as a teaching tool but then a major radio company got a look at the new invention and it was. RCA is the company that dominated the radio business in the United States. It owned NBC networks, invested $50 million in the development of the television. In 1939, RCA televised the opening of the New York World 's Fair with a speech by President Roosevelt, who was the first president to be on TV. Later that year RCA got a license to use Mr. Farnsworth 's television patents. RCA began selling TV sets with in the year. They also began broadcasting programs and sports games. On May 17, 1939 was the first televised baseball game. By 1941 the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) competition in radio was broadcasting two 15-minute newscasts a day. At the first televised baseball game they only had one camera. The early newscasts on CBS were chalk talks with a newsman moving a pointer across a map. The quality of the picture made it difficult to make what was going on. World War II slowed the development of the TV as companies turned their attention to military and producing a vision of the TV for them. TV hit a major bump over wavelength allocations with the FM radio and a battle over government regulation. The FCC the government overseeing body for commutation of any kind in 1941they ruled that the NBC had to sell one of its two radio networks 1943. The second network became the new American Broadcasting Company (ABC).Full scale commercial TV broadcasting did not begin in the United States until 1947. By 1949 Americans could watch a growing number of television shows like the children 's program, Howdy Doody and 15-minute news cast. Many early

Bibliography: Article by Mitchell Stephens From Grolier Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.com/history of TV