Since the beginning of time, mankind has marveled at his achievements and progress. But in 1923, a man by the name of Vladimir Zworykin created a machine that would forever change society and the world, as we knew it. He invented a “tube that picked up moving images for live transmission” (Vivian, 1999, p. 9). And so we entered into the age of the television, where we were amazed by the moving images of life on our phosphorous …showed first 75 words of 1948 total…

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