Television
The beginning of TV can be tracked back to the discovery of photoconductivity back in 1873 by Willoughby Smith. TV was invented in the mid 1920’s by a Scottish inventor name John Logie Baird in London. Baird patented technology by using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images to be delivered to a television set. The first picture of moving object was transmitted by Baird in 1924, televised human face in 1925, and last but not least the first real – time moving object in 1926. The first color broadcasting was arrived in United States in 1953 and the first color commercial was televised in 1954 and soon television became the leading source for national advertising. Television was first demonstrated in 1939 at New York World’s Fair and San Francisco Golden International Exposition. At World’s Fair that year RCA’s David Sarnoff showed the first televised Presidential Speech by FDR with his new line of television receivers.
Before 1940’s the lack of technology made the usage of television very difficult. The condition the actor have to meet or go through to be seen on TV was almost impossible, the camera back then did not work very well with the color white so the actor would have to wear black lip stick and green make up. Also with the heavy make ups on the actors would have to film under extremely hot light so adjust to the camera. Later on as our technology was on the rise the development of TV stop because of World War 2, since all the effort and resources was all going into the war to bring back the victory. It wasn’t until the early 50’s color TV started mass producing. And since at that time TV was so new to the market their target market was pretty much everyone or anyone that can afford a TV set at that time. ...
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...surface of the Frisbee to stabilize the flight of the Frisbee and then market Frisbee playing as a new sport. By doing that and saying Frisbee is now a sport Wham-O sold over 100 million units of Frisbee by 1977.
After deciding Frisbee to be a sport, two popular sport was invented. Ultimate Frisbee is invented by the high school students in Maplewood which is a sport that is a cross between football, soccer, and basketball in 1967. After a year another sport is invented due to Frisbee and it was invented by Headrick himself called Frisbee Golf. It is played by tossing a heavier weighted Frisbee into a metal basket and there is now hundreds of Frisbee golfing course in America. Frisbee isn’t just played by human but also animals. Many family with dogs would play fetch with them with frisbee and frisbee became of those toys that we see everywhere and at every park.
In the year 1871, a man by the name William Russell Frisbie moved to bransford Connecticut where his dad had operated a grist mill. he was hired to be the manager of a branch of the bakery, William soon after bought the bakery and renamed it the Frisbee pie company, this company offered a plethora of different cookies and pies and from this little company you get the Frisbee. There are two stories to the origin of the first Frisbee. The first is that the Pie-Tin School. “The pie-tin people claim Yale students bought Frisbie's pies (undoubtedly a treat in themselves) and tossed the prototype all over Eli's campus. These early throwers would exclaim "Frisbee" to signal the catcher. And well they might, for a tin Frisbee is something else again to catch.”. “The Cookie-Tin School. Now the cookie tin people agree on these details save one: they insist that the true, original prototype was the cookie-tin lid that held in the goodness of Frisbee's sugar cookies.” (history of Frisbee, WFDW).
using the stick to throw the ball into the net. The game is mainly used for recreational purpose today as
Before the television there was also many things going on and other things that were used as communication and entertainment. Everybody had a busy life. Most children would entertain themselves and have some fun and play outside (Before 1). Kids were active and lived a healthy lifestyle while they had fun and made friends. As a whole family, they would read or play games together (Before 1). As communication, they did not have the tv for the use of communication yet in the 1940s or anytime earlier. The main source of communication was the radio, this was also used for entertainment such as music or news (Before 1).
“The athletic craze began in the late nineteenth century when American’s were looking for some recreational activities to add to their daily lives during the Depression. In the cities, industrial wage earners frequented play grounds. They went dancing at the dance halls and had fun at the amusement parks. People that lived in rural areas simply rode bicycles, played baseball or football. “
Carpenter, Eric J. "The Tactical Games Model Sport Experience: An Examination of Student Motivation and Game Performance during an Ultimate Frisbee Unit."Scholarworks.umass.edu. University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2010. Web. 1 Mar. 2014.
...the very first Western in color. October 2nd The Twilight Zone is introduced by CBS. RCA sells 90,000 color T.V. sets. In 1960, after spending more than $130 Million in research and advertising, color television finally records its first profit for RCA. From a production standpoint, the one million units per year barrier are not broken until 1964.
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Before analyzing the history of Rock n’ Roll television, the history of how watching television came to become a popular must come into question. To summarize briefly, the invention of television was in development since the 1870s, however the first demonstration of live transmitted images in motion was in 1925 lead by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (Radio Shows Far Away Objects in Motion). The image was of Baird’s business partner Oliver Hutchinson (Television), showing a mere five frames per second, it was an impressive sight for the time. With perfection of the invention, electronic televisions had been developed by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin with the help of the RCA radio...
The 1940's and 1950s Cable Television originated in 1948 as a service to households in mountainous or geographically remote areas where reception of over the air television signals was poor. Antennas were erected on mountaintops or other high points, and homes were wired and connected to these towers to receive the broadcast signals.
The ‘Golden Age of Television’ is what many refer to as the period between the 1950s and 60s when the television began to establish itself as a prevalent medium in the United States. In 1947, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the Du Mont Network were the four main television networks that ran stations with regular programming taking place. (Television, 2003) While regular television programming was a new innovation, the television itself had been commercially available for over twenty years prior to the 50s. It was conceived by many worldly innovators and went through several testing stages before it was finally completed in the late twenties. The three main innovators were Niplow - who first developed a rotating disk with small holes arranged in a spiral pattern in 1884, Zworykin - who developed the Iconoscope which could scan pictures and break them into electronic signals (a primitive form of the Cathode Ray Tube) in 1923, and lastly Fansworth - who demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to transmit an electrical image in 1927. (Rollo, 2011) However, one of the many reasons why this medium was successful in the 50s was due to the fact that it became more accessible to the public. Television sets were more affordable to middle class citizens which created further interest in the new technology. Through an historical account of the medium, the spread of television across America throughout this particular decade will be examined.
People had been tossing Frisbees around for years, but had yet to create a sport using the Frisbee disk. At Columbia High School in New Jersey, students from the school newspaper created a new sport, combining different aspects of soccer, football, basketball, team handball, and hockey, they called it Ultimate Frisbee. These students decided to write an official set of rules for Ultimate Frisbee. At first, it was only played by a few students at Columbia. The sport soon caught on at other colleges and high schools in the area. From then on, Ultimate spread rapidly throughout the United States, and was at first played only in schools. Since then many non-scholastic leagues have formed and many countries have started national teams. Not much has changed since the rules were first published, and since then, Ultimate has spread all over the world.
This has helped it to become one of today 's most popular sports. The golf world has embraced the progression of the golf ball, and has yet to deem any particular ball unfair or unethical. Nothing has actually made a game-changing impact on ball technology since the invention of the rubber core, only minor improvements on a model that works well.
James Naismith, creator of basketball, used a soccer ball as the first basketball. The game of soccer was originally played with an inflated animal bladder that was surrounded with leather (Leibs 67). Just as in every sport, as time evolves, so do the materials being played with. The materials begin becoming more durable, controllable, and affordable. During the Renaissance period, many sports were evolved and took a turn for the better. Although many sports were introduced during the Renaissance period; football, lawn bowling, and tennis were the three main sports that influenced today’s time period the most.
and decided to look into it. At this time television had already been invented by some inventors such as Paul Nipkow
Sports, a very popular past time today, have been around since ancient times. Greek Olympic Games featured events from chariot races, javelin throws, to wrestling. In addition, a game similar to soccer was played in China by the second century BC. In England, a violent rugby type game was even played to settle feuds between villages. With the development of the industrial revolution and the creation of the first public schools, sports decreased in violence and were played more recreationally and constructively. Basketball was invented to help the youth in New England spend their energy in the winter months. Since the early 1900’s sports have been a key experience in the United States (“History of Sports”). I have played sports for many years, and the experience has helped me grow significantly as an individual.