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it was made up of wood, metal, glass. it didn't come with a remote, you had to go to the tv to change the channel
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Cable television originated in the United States almost simultaneously in Arkansas, Oregon and Pennsylvania in 1948 to enhance poor reception of over-the-air television signals in mountainous or geographically remote areas.
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The first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950. The remote, called "Lazy Bones," was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the "Flashmatic," was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley.
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The first color television sets for this system were sold in 1954. They used a 15 inch screen. Later that year, 19 inch sets were made, and by 1955 all sets were made with a 21 inch picture tube.
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There are over 2,500 communication satellites approx. 36,000km above the earth’s surface in a geostationary orbit around the equator, known as the Clarke Belt. It takes approx. 0.6 seconds for data to travel from a satellite to your TV screen. Larger satellite dishes have a higher gain (they focus energy more accurately and efficiently) which makes them more reliable in bad weather, experiencing less signal ‘dropout’.
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researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
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The first smart tv related patent was filed in 1994, though it's only the last 5 years that jan 10, 2012 ces samsung launches its 55 inch super oled made much of platform, launched 2008, for which it had been world's leading television manufacturer six years, selling 57 million sets year.
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Scottish electrical engineer John Logie Baird gives the first demonstration of a workable television system to the public, using mechanical scanning technology. California inventor Philo Farnsworth is the first to be granted a US patent for an all-electronic television system.
