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In its early stages of development, television employed a combination of optical, mechanical and electronic technologies to capture, transmit and display a visual image. The first images transmitted electrically were sent by early mechanical fax machines, invented by Paul Nipkin German engineer in 1884.

In 1925 John Berd Sweden engineer invented

mechanism that could show faces clearly.

Although television was first introduced to the general public at the 1939 World's Fair, the outbreak of World War II prevented it from being manufactured. True regular commercial network television programming did not begin in the U.S. until 1948.

Television - is when people who have nothing to do, look at people who do not know how to doanything. - Fred Allen. TV – it is chewing gum for the eyes. -

Frank Lloyd Wright TV can teach and educate and even

inspire, but only as long as people will use it accordingly. Otherwise - it is nothing more than a box with wires and light bulbs. -Edward R. Murrow

The number of commercials, that a child watches per one year: 20,000.

Number of minutes per week, when a child watches TV: 1,680

Hours per year that the average (American) teenager spends at school: 900

Hours per year that the average (American) teenager spends in front of TV: 1500.

Pros of TV. Pros of TV. TV - something that helps to spend your spare

time. TV – a great thing for single people. TV - the way to know of what is happening in the

world. You can watch an interesting movie without

leaving home. If you do not want to go to the movies, you may

wait only a year and discover this movie on TV. Many entertainment programs for children,

helping them to develop.

Cons of TV. Cons of TV. TV impairs vision. TV is addictive. There is a lot of violence on TV. If you eat in front of TV, you eat a lot more.

Little children can «occupy» TV to watch your favorite cartoons.

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