Introduction
Television is one of the most valuable contributions of the scientists in the last century. The world 's first real television picture was produced by a Scottish inventor called John Logie Baird in 19251. It was nearly a hundred years to the first television appears, television has evolved a lot in appearances and functions. Darwin’s theory suggests that the variation among living organisms and the evolution of a species is caused by the theory of natural selection. As a non-living organism, the development of television is similar to the evolution of living species which obeying the Darwin’s theory of Evolution. This theory suggests that there are five characteristics in every biological life including reproductive potential, constancy of numbers, struggle for existence, individual difference and inheritance of traits.
This essay is going to discuss the development of television in the past one hundred years and how it demonstrates the evolution theory of Darwin.
The Evolution process of Television A historian Arnold Abramson said that “No one person invented television; most of the inventors were ahead of their time and technology; some were idle dreamers, others were practical men who could turn their ideas into machinery.” Many scientists and engineers contributed to the evolution of television theoretically or practically. The process will present in timeline below.
Pre 1900---In 1884, Paul Nipkow invented a rotating- disc technology using in the transmission of images over wires2. Before 1900, the focus of television development is mainly on the theory; most of them cannot turn into machine due to the restriction of technology.
1900--- The term “television’’ invented by Constantin Perskyi and the first "television" showed at 1900 Paris Exhibition2.
1906--- The first working mechanical television system is invented by Boris Rosing by combining the Paul Nipkow 's rotating disks and the cathode ray