Development of Television by Jie

In this semester, I have chosen the “Television” as my main topic. Most of my friends in class thought I am crazy because who will write thousands of words about the most common electrical equipment in our life. I know maybe some of you think it is useless and non-significant, but please bare me.

Just what we called the simple thing in our life also had a development in the society. Same as nowadays the Apple’s produces normally appears. All the new things must came across a process which from unknown and rare to popular, from popular to normal, and from normal to the simple owing to there is no new interest and get used to it. However Television step forward than computers, because television changed from not indispensable equipment to daily furniture.

In 1927, Philo Farnsworth from the U.S made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices,[1] which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.[1][2] Television was founded after the World War I before the World War II, the year after the invention of television, the British broadcasting Corporation(BBC) was firstly running its broadcasting services with limited amount of hours and days during a week. Compare to that of the U.S, the first regularly scheduled television service began on July2, 1928. [3]According to picture (1), it is obvious that the introduction in each country from different period. Those countries such as Japan, the USA, and European countries owned power and won in The World War I started the earliest. Following, Canada, China and other countries had television after 1949, several years after The World War II and establish of the republic of China. However in picture (2), people in the develop countries have more televisions than that in developing countries. Therefore, television owning rate on the hand reflected the life standard gap between developing countries and developed countries. 

 Television introduction by country (1)

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1930 to 1939	1970 to 1979
1940 to 1949	1980 to 1989
1950 to 1959	1990 to 1999
1960 to 1969	No data

Television sets per 1000 people of the world in 2009 (2)

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1000+	100–200
500–1000	50–100
300–500	0–50
200–300	No data

It is also possible to say that the development of the television led to the digital generation. The fundamental principles of television were using electromechanical methods to scan transmit and reproduce an image. [4] According to what I have searched in the internet, the definition of television is telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can monochrome (black and white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound.[5] That kind of statement briefly conclude what television basically looks like, somehow in the reality, television played much more significant role and advanced more than that of ancient time.

Reference:

1 "Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906–71)", The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

2 Farnsworth, Elma G., Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery on an Invisible Frontier, Salt Lake City, PemberlyKent, 1989, p. 108.

3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

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