The Television The Television By: Rick Doyle

What was the Need?  The need for the Television was to visually watch a person or image on a screen and listen to it.  It also gave people the capability of watching things going on rather then just listening to a person say what’s going on like the radio.

Are there any Alternate Solutions?  Some people propose that computers will be integrated into the television.  There are also televisions that are integrated with a DVD player or VCR.  There are alterations to some televisions that make them projectors that show images on a screen.

Various Prototypes for the T.V.  There are hundreds of prototypes for the television and in its early years, there were all sorts. Different countries had different types of televisions.  1930 Baird Televisor (Britain)  1924 Western Television (U.S.A)  1929 Semivisor by Rene Barthelemy (France)  1934 Model B2 Russian TV (Russia)

Where are Televisions Made?  Televisions are made in huge factories all over the world by either hundreds of employees or by machines. These factories are scattered all over the world.  There is a variety of companies that make televisions like Sony, Vizio, and many others.

Quality Control Procedures  There are a list of procedures that must be checked in television:  Check the Control Chart on primary SQC tool  Check sheet to present information in clear graphic form  Flow chart to show each stage of a process  Histogram to provide at-a-glance picture of data distribution  Cause and Effect Diagram to associate an effect with its possible causes  Make Scatter Diagram to highlight the effect of one variable on another

Are Televisions Still in Use?  The television is still in use today and there are many improvements being made to it like high definition, blue ray, laser definition, and thinner televisions.  Odds are the television will never be obsolete as 90 percent of America owns a television and 52 percent of the world own a television.

Disposing a Television  Televisions must be disposed at a recycling plant or land fill as it has harmful parts within it like lead and mercury.  There are many companies that will take your television and recycle it for you so its parts will not harm you or the environment around you.