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The Set Up By Bill Bailey Chapter 8  Television:       Television was not invented by one person but by many people working together and alone which contributed to the evolution of TV. Names like Joseph Henry, Michael Faraday, Caselli, Bell and Edison were all contributors to the obnoxious box we now have in our homes. Faraday started back in 1831 and the others built upon his advances. In 1900, at the Worlds Fair in Paris, the name television was used for the first time. The first feeble attempts at transmitting images over wires was a mechanical contraption using spinning discs, but other inventors used electronic means to send pictures using the Cathode Ray tube. A Russian named Zworkin working for Westinghouse and RCA was able to patent his "electronic eye" by 1923. In 1928 Charles Jenkins was issued the first television license by the Federal Radio Commission. Two years later he offered the first TV commercial.

      And now we have that wonderful world of MTV, Michael Jackson, "Who wants to be a millionaire?" and constant sound and image "bites" from the CNN newsroom. The greatest invention since the beginning of the television industry (except the TV itself) has been the remote control device, known as the "clicker" In the old days of TV you had to watch one program all night or actually move 8 feet to change stations or volume. You changed the volume only when something extremely important was going on, like an ambulance next door or when you think you hear a rat in the attic, but never for one of the kids that might want to talk to you. Once the clicker was perfected, you were able to completely give up your mind and soul to the idiot box and also at the same time give up your body to beer and pizza. It has been an escape route for over a hundred years for people without any hope of a real life. There are now billions of TV sets worldwide. 80 percent of children 2-8 years old watch on average 5-20 hours of television per week. This has caused the evolution (changes within a kind) of shorter attention span in those children and a reduced use of their imagination. Of course now we have the computer, which I am using now to write this. It has supplanted TV and opened a whole new era of information and image delivery from around the world. Like any invention of mankind, both of these electronic devices can be used for good or for evil.

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