The Television What is television?

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black-and-white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound. History On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London. AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories transmitted halftone still images of transparencies in May 1925. On June 13 of that year, Charles Francis Jenkins transmitted the silhouette image of a toy windmill in motion, over a distance of five miles from a naval radio station in Maryland to his laboratory in Washington, using a lensed disk scanner with a 48-line resolution. Relevant Aspects: The first national live television broadcast in the U.S. took place on September 4, 1951 when President Harry Truman's speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco, California was transmitted over AT&T's transcontinental cable and microwave radio relay system to broadcast stations in local markets.

The first live coast-to-coast commercial television broadcast in the U.S. took place on November 18, 1951 during the premiere of CBS's See It Now, which showed a split-screen view of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Where television is use?

Schools for teach uneducated people Business for publicity In Hospitals in the waiting rooms

Advantages of the TV: Useful as a learning tool Watching the news might be easier than to make some people read the newspaper People entertainment

Disadvantages of the TV: TV is unhealthy for our eyes. It Can Cause You To Gain Weight It Wastes Time

Vocabulary: Accompanying: Que acompaa Silhouette: Silueta Windmill: Molino de viento Monochrome: Monocromatico

English Extra Class Work

Teacher: Tatiana Sibaja

Student: Mariano Arrieta

Class: 12-2 Year: 2012