The History of Televisions Sydney Moody-Freedom

  • Getting to Know the TV.

    Getting to Know the TV.
    An American inventor called Charles Jenkins used the disk idea of Nipkow to invent the first ever practical mechanical television system.
  • First T.V created

    First T.V created
    The first tv was created by Philo Farnsworth, and Charles Francis Jenkins.
  • Experiments

    Experiments
    There was a few experiments conducted in 1927 and the early nineteen hundreds for TV's, but only one mattered. Philo Taylor Farnsworth created the first electronic TV successfully.
  • Commercial TV

    Commercial TV
    By 1949 Americans could watch up to about 3-5 stations with commercials inbetween shows.
  • Television Science

    Television Science
    Television programming began to take some steps away from radio formats.
  • When was TV's made with color?

    When was TV's made with color?
    The first tv with color came out in 1964.
  • Flat Screen

    Flat Screen
    The first prototype of a flatscreen was made in July of 1964, The invention would be made public in that same year.
  • Co-inventors

    Co-inventors
    The inventors and co-inventors of the first flat screen TV's were people from illinois university, There names were Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow.
  • Advantage #1

    Advantage #1
    The first flat screen TV came out in 1964, and that is when technology started to become more smart.
  • Public Broadcasting

    Public Broadcasting
    A Carnegie Commission report in 1967 recommended the creation of a fourth, noncommercial, public television network built around the educational nonprofit stations already in operation throughout the United States.
  • The Three Networks at The Height Of Their Power

    The Three Networks at The Height Of Their Power
    The three major networks have always been in a continual race for ratings and advertising dollars. CBS and NBC dominated through the mid-1970s, when ABC, traditionally regarded as a poor third, rose to the top of the ratings, largely because of shrewd scheduling.
  • Advantage #2

    Advantage #2
    Tv's around this time, are very complex and confusing for most elders because they did not grow up around this technology, but it is easy to get comfortable around once you get the jist of it.
  • Advantage #3

    Advantage #3
    If you want to watch Netflix, Hulu, listen to the radio. You do not need a radio or a seperate advanced piece of technology, all you need is a flat screen TV.
  • Disadvantage

    Disadvantage
    TV makes children/teenagers have the urge to stay at home all day and watch tv.