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Encyclopedia > Television set

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Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3351 words)
The origins of what would become today's television system are traced back as far as the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, and the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Nipkow in 1884.
Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents are raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
In its infancy, television was an ephemeral medium.
Television Set - AskTheBrain.com (334 words)
Television reports explain the phenomena as a result of radiation from a probe to Venus that reactivates the dead and sets them off eating the living.
Television sets and video cassette recorders use $1 billion worth of electricity per year when they are turned off, because of standby features that consume power.
Television sets have been around since 1923, and by 1947 were in enough American homes for Truman to deliver the first Presidential television address.
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