Innovation Inquirer
September 8, 1926 Volume MMXVI
Television is Lighting Up the Nation!
Associated Press
The television was invented by Scottish inventor John Logie in 1926. Mr. Logie previously tried to make artificial diamonds, but since he failed, he decided to create something new. Logie created the first television by putting together a jumble of lenses, spinning cardboard disks, and electrical motors. Little did he know of the importance of his invention. Julie Nixon Eisenhower once said, "Television has tremendous power over people."
John Logie was born in 1888 and died in 1946. Logie had always loved inventing things. Even though most of the time he failed, he kept inventing things and eventually he became successful. One of his first inventions was a working telephone wire for his whole neighborhood. "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life." Old televisions were made up of large wooden boxes, whirling disks, screens, square black tubes, jumbles of lenses, spinning cardboard disks, and electric motors."Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver" said John Logie. The television is said to be visually interesting, highly entertaining, and commanding to peoples' attention. It also influences the viewers attitudes and beliefs about themselves. As Fred Allen once said, "Television is the triumph of machine over people." Televisions were hard to find at first, but soon enough they were being manufactured. Since so many of them were being manufactured, retail stores all over the world started selling televisions. As Lee Lovinger once said, "Television is simply automated dreaming." A Great Invention in the Process of Being Made.
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