televisions

     

Television is a wiely used telecommunication medium for broadcasting and receiving live, moving greyscale or color images with sound. The term may also be used to refer specifically to a television set, programming or television transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far sight": Greek tele (τῆλε), far, and Latin vision, sight (from video, vis- to see, or to view in the first person).

Trivia about televisions

  • In the mid-1940s about 10,000 Americans owned these electronic devices; by 1957 about 40 million were in use
  • In 1996 President Clinton signed a bill that said all of these made after 1997 should contain a V-chip