1. Television
By Katherine Lee,
Thomas Mattera,
Dominique Roubé,
and Nicole Heimbach

2. Invention of the Television
Late 1800s - Fax machines
Rasterization - Visual image to electrical pulses
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow - First TV (1884)
First- Spinning disk with holes
Progression- Rotating mirror drum scanner

3. Invention of the Television
Moving images were still not possible
John Logie Baird- Scanning disk allowed for moving images (1926)
First practical use of television was in Germany (1929)
Kálmán Tihanyi- Plasma TV (1936)

4. Important Figures
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
John Logie Baird
Kálmán Tihanyi

5. Popularity of Televisions
1946: 7,000 televisions existed in the United States
1950: 4.4 families were tuned in
1956: 20,000 TVs sold a day
1960- Americans owned 50 million TVs
90% of American homes had at least one television

6. Impacts on Everyday Life
How people dressed, ate, and talked
TV dinners
Theaters shut doors
Radio listening and book sales dropped
Racial stereotypes were reinforced
All spare time was used to watch TV

7. Leave It to Beaver The Amos and Andy Show Hopalong Cassidy
Popular 1950’s TV Shows
Leave It to Beaver
The Amos and Andy Show
Hopalong Cassidy
Mickey Mouse Club
I Love Lucy

8. Television in the 1950’s and Fahrenheit 451
Size
Times when shown
Popularity
Involvement
Popular Shows
Color VS

9. Quotes from Text
“They wrote the script with one part missing. It’s a new idea. The homemaker, that’s me, is the missing part. When it comes time for the missing lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the lines” (Bradbury 24)

10. Quotes from Text
“Mildred kicked at a book. ‘Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody! …Now,’ said Mildred, ‘My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh! And the colors’” (Bradbury 75).

11. Quotes from Text
“ ‘No,’ said Mrs. Bowles. ‘I’m trotting right straight home. You want to visit my house and my ‘family,’ well and good. But I won’t come in this fireman’s crazy house again in my lifetime’” (Bradbury 103)!

12. Works Cited
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Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Boston: McDougal Littell, Print.
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