John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer who invented the first television in the late 1920s. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s but it would still be several years before the new technology was marketed to consumers right before World War 2. Color television had its beginnings in the late 1940s alongside black and white television and became commercially viable in the early 1950s. The evolution of television from the late 1920s to today has seen improvements such as the introduction of color television in the 1950s, rise of popular TV shows in the 1980s "golden age of television", and modern innovations including flat screen, curved and ultra-thin TVs.

1. T H E E V O L U T I O N O F
T . V .
The evolution of
T.V.
By: Madison K. Duckworth

2. I N T R O D U C T I O N
• Have you ever wondered how we got to see some of
our favorite movies and t.v shows today? In this report
you will learn about the wonders of television on how it
started and to where it is now.
Then: Now:

3. T H E M A K E R
O F T H E F I R S T
T . V
John Logie Bard was a
Scottish engineer and
the main inventor of the
first television.

4. T H E F I R S T T E L E V I S I O N
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T E C H N O L O G Y W A S M A R K E T E D T O C O N S U M E R S
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5. C O L O R T E L E V I S I O N
Could you watch the Simpsons in black and white
or the Guardians of the galaxy too? Well if it wasn't
for Color television then we wouldn't be able to see
some of our favorite characters in color.

6. W H E N W A S T H E F I R S T C O L O R T . V
M A D E ?
Color television had its beginnings in the late 1940s
alongside black and white television. It was not a
commercially viable until the early 1950s.
.

7. W H A T W A S T H E F I R S T S H O W A I R E D
O F T E L E V I S I O N ?
1941: The first tv show was not your usual Big
Bang Theory or Walking dead. The first official,
paid television advertisement was broadcast in the
United States on July 1, 1941 over New York
station WNBT (now known as WNBC) before a
baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and
Philadelphia Phillies. This was during the end of
WW 2.

9. But what about after world war two?

10. After World War II, an improved form
of black-and-white TV became popular
in the United States and Britain. More
television sets became common in
homes, businesses, and institutions.

11. T H E F I R S T F L A T S C R E E N T . V
The first prototype flat screen TV was invented during the
month of July in 1964. The invention would be made
public later that same year. The TV’s were not as flat as
the tv we know today. They were at least 4 inches thick if
you viewed then from the side.

13. 80’s T.V.

14. • The 80’s was the best years to ever have and here are
few shows and movies from the 80’s that will make
you have the same opinion as me.

15. • This was an important part in Television because it
was known as the golden age of television. This is
because of the iconic actors and hilarious t.v. Also
some of the most famous movies come from the 80’s.

16. T O D A Y S T . V .
• Skip a few years and you get to the 2000’s we have
many shows and tv has evolved in many ways:
• We now have t.v. screens that are curved.
• Also we have t.v. screens that are 2.57mm thick (that’s
half the size of the first one.)

18. C O N C L U S I O N
• We have traveled to 1960 through the 2000’s in t.v.
and we learned a few things along the way. We have
learned about how we got to see color on our little
screen in the living room and we got to learn about the
golden years. Will you ever look at t.v the same again?

19. S O U R C E S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television
http://fortune.com/2017/01/04/ces-lg-wall-on-
paper-tv/
http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/golden-
age-of-tv-was-born-in-the-1980s.html