Michael Zlonkevicz's List: Greatest Invention

• Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years
• Abbe Giovanna Caselli

• By the late 1990s, 98 percent of U.S. homes had at least one television set,   and those sets were on for an average of more than seven hours a day
• Electronic television was   first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927
• World War II slowed the development of television,   as companies like RCA turned their attention to military production
• struggle over wavelength allocations with the   new FM radio and a battle over government regulation
• In 1964 color broadcasting   began on prime-time television

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• The violence depicted on television has a desensitization effect on the children
• • How has it impacted our society?
• Sex, substance abuse and other important issues are not handled and depicted with a great deal of maturity on television and this in turn can end up giving out the wrong message.
• • What are the negative effects of this technology?
• • How has it impacted society?
• contributed to increasing obesity among people.
• While watching television people tend to consume large amounts of unhealthy food items such as chips and soft drinks

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• The days previous to this life changing small TV came into the homes of the well off, the nucleus family tended to spend their evenings sat around a radio set.
• • What technologies did it replace or remove?
    Television improved upon the radio.
    

• children under the age of two should not watch TV or any form of screen entertainment at all because television "can negatively affect early brain development"
• • Were there any negative effects of the technology?
    
    Children younger than 2 should not watch television because it could hamper their brain development.
• Children who watch television at ages one and three had a significantly increased risk of developing such attentional problems by the time they were seven
• • Were there any negative effects of this technology?
• children under three years of age is found to have a negative effect on mathematical ability
• children get less sleep than previous generations had and experience more sleeping difficulties.
• • Were there any negative effects of this technology?

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• • How has it helped mankind?
• • What are the uses for the technology?
• advertising, a source of entertainment, and news.
• television has been the main medium for molding public opinion
• most common usage of the medium is for broadcast television, which was modeled on the existing radio broadcasting systems developed in the 1920s, and uses high-powered radio-frequency transmitters to broadcast the television signal to individual TV receivers.
• • What technologies did it replace/improve on?
• The first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950. The remote, called "Lazy Bones", was connected to the television by a wire.

  • Was it the springboard for other technology advancements?

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• • How has it helped mankind?
• very powerful and effective learning tool for children if used wisely

• • Was it the springboard for other technologies?
• DVR has made recording TV shows much easier than the VCR ever did. It’s the magic robot sitting under your TV waiting for your shows to come on so it can record them for you