History of Television

History of Television Suite

"Philo T. Farnsworth"
The Father of Television
by J. J. Jonas

Imagine you've discovered a new idea, but didn't know anyone who would understand it. That is what happened in 1921 to Philo T. Farnsworth, a young Idaho farm boy who dreamt up modern television one day while plowing his father's potato field.

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"Schadenfreude"
On the Reality of TV
by J. J. Jonas

"Schadenfreude" is a German word meaning "the pleasure one receives at the suffering of others." Many noted experts in America psychiatric community are beginning to use this word to describe the television-viewing audience's fascination with, and sometimes addiction to, the popular phenomenon of reality TV.

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"Ed and the Four Lads"
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Variety Hour
by J. David Abbott

The first appearance of the British musical group, The Beatles, on the Ed Sullivan Variety Hour is the event that ushered in what was later called "The British Invasion" when British artists dominated American music sales in the U.S. through the mid-1960s.

No other single musical performance of its kind has surpassed the number of U.S. viewers to date. Few, if any, events linked common experience absent of tragedy through the then relatively new medium of television.

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