1) The First Television Sets in the United States In September of 1928, these sets were unveiled to the public. However, American electronic television sets would not be built and distributed commercially until 1938. After their release, they became an instant smash.
2) A decent 21-inch console colour television in the early 1970s might have cost $500. That would be roughly $3300 in today's money. A good tabletop set may cost $350, which is almost $2200 today.
3) Philo Farnsworth, full name Philo Taylor Farnsworth II, was an American inventor who invented the first all-electronic television system. He was born August 19, 1906, in Beaver, Utah, and died March 11, 1971, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
4) The television's inventor would not allow his own children to see it.
5) In 1884, German inventor Paul Nipkow used his famous "Electric Telescope" to establish static black and white television transmission. In 1900, Russian scientist Constantin Persk created the term "television."
6) Most people have colour dreams, but those who grew up watching black and white television have black and white dreams as well.
7) In 2019, women watched an average of 2.64 hours of television each day, up from 2.64 hours the previous year. Men watched more TV than women on average, while their daily viewing time decreased somewhat between 2018 and 2019.
8) According to a 2010 research, by the age of 18, the average American child will have witnessed 16,000 killings and 200,000 acts of violence on television.
9) “Game of Thrones” is the most costly TV show ever made. When you consider the exotic locations where the series is shot, the amount of CGI required to make the mythological animals appear real, and the extravagant costumes and settings, the series' $15 million per episode budget makes sense.
10) Kenjiro Takayanagi showed a TV system with a 40-line resolution and a CRT display at Hamamatsu Industrial High School in Japan on December 25, 1926. This was the world's first entirely electronic television receiver in operation.
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