EOTO - Each One Teach One - Television

      For my part of the EOTO presentation, I researched and talked about the history of the television.  I started with the invention of the first television, which was actually harder than in may sound.  For starters, there is a difference between a mechanical television and an electronic television.  The mechanical television came first, but it was incredibly impractical.  It was huge, had a super tiny screen, terrible quality, and wasn't commercially viable.  But it was a start.  It led to the introduction of the electronic TV, which is considered where the invention of the TV really came from.

     The second thing that made it hard to nail down was that multiple people argued (in and out of court) over who actually first invented it.  I found that in 1922, Charles Jenkins send the first still image over radio waves.  Then, in 1926, John Baird sent the first live transmission, using a device he called a "televisor."  The next year, Philo Farnsworth patented the first electronic TV set, which he called the "image dissector."  Then, in 1929, Vladimir Zworykin made improvements to this system.  Because all these people were working on the same thing at the same time in many different places, it was hard to tell who really did it first.  Today, Farnsworth is often credited with the invention of the television.

     There have been many improvements since then, such as sound, color, and quality.  I found that the color TV was invented sometime between 1946 and 1950, but I couldn't find a specific date.  The first successful color broadcast was in 1953.  Now, there are so many different TV companies and innovators making tons of different kinds of TVs.

     Next, I went over the top eight TV manufacturers in the world.  Only one of the eight is from the United States, with all the rest being from Asian countries.  Samsung was started in 1969 in South Korea, LG started in 1958 also in South Korea, Sony and Panasonic were started in 1946 and 1918, respectively, in Japan, Hisense (1969), TCL (1981), and Skyworth (1988) are Chinese manufacturers, and Vizio is the only American one and is also the most recent one, having started in 2002.

     Lastly, I went over some of the pros and cons of the television.  For the pros, I noted that TV is a great form of entertainment, and that it is a great repository for art.  TV shows, dramas, plays, and musicals are all art forms that have been enhanced by the invention of the TV.  It also provides a source of mass communication.  Ideas and stories can be shared to myriads of people, as well as news.  As for the cons, I said that the rise of television has led to a decline in attention span.  It also poses possible risk of eye damage.  Finally, there is the potential for inappropriate material to be spread through TV, and there are many rules and regulations put in place for that. 

https://www.thoughtco.com/color-television-history-4070934 

https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/Who-Invented-the-First-TV 

https://blog.technavio.com/blog/largest-tv-manufacturers-by-market-share

 I like this picture because it shows a lot of different video game consoles that can be played on the TV, and, in case you didn't know, I'm a huge fan of video games.