The thought of television has been around since the 1800's. In early 1879 cartoonist and drew pictures of people watching sports and wars in a wall screen. Many people contributed to this invention. Paul Nipkow and John Logie Baird helped create the first televisions. They invented a spinning disk that transmitted still pictures, which looked like blurred shadows. A man from Idaho named Philo T. Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin invented the eye of the television camera, …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…in. Many of the things we have today were not even thought about 100 years ago. Having televisions that provide so much could either be helpful or lead to a new generation of couch potatoes (Reiheicky,59). Works cited Calabro, Marian. ZAP! A Brief History of Television. New York: Four Winds Press, 1992. Riehecky, Janet. Incentors & Inventions: Television. New York: Benchmark Books, 1996. Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American television. New York: Oxford Universities Press, 1975.