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Two centuries after the birth of Abraham Lincoln and nine decades after the invention of television, you might think that TV would have run out of new programs on the nation's 16th president. But you'd be wrong.
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April offers a colorful transition from winter to the warmth of summer and finally a chance to get outdoors. It also offers theater, jazz and boxing in addition to gardening. On Friday, the University of Evansville's theater department will debut a new performance, "The Farnsworth Invention," at Shanklin Theatre. The Aaron Sorkin-penned production focuses on the creation of television and the adversarial quest for technological innovation that ensues between a young Idaho inventor and the RCA communications mogul who was alleged to have stolen the design.
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When Man and Woman first got together, they probably made an arrangement that went something like this: Man would go out and club a defenseless animal, then bring it home. Woman would cook it while Man sat back and waited for the invention of television, the six-pack and the NFL.
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What did sports fans do on Thanksgiving weekend before the invention of television? Go to turkey races? Pumpkin-smashing contests? Leaf-raking exhibitions? Nowadays, of course, all you need is a La-Z-Boy and a clicker - and your cable provider does the rest. From Thursday through Sunday, we're bombarded with all manner of sporting endeavor, everything from the Bayou Classic (Grambling vs. Southern) to the World Series of Poker to live coverage of Gary Sheffield's shoulder operation. OK, maybe not that last one.
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...Invention appears in significant part to be a social, not an... steamboat, Philo Farnsworth and the television, and so on. . Patent law is built around these can...
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News You can use The Federal Communications Commission has set up a Web site as a clearinghouse for digital TV conversion information. It contains up-to-the-minute news, frequently asked questions, links to related Web sites and even a shopping guide for digital televisions. It is located at www.dtv.gov. The world of television is about to have one of its biggest changes since the invention of color television.
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Born decades before the invention of television, computers and cell phones, Helen and Bill Dauberman, both 90, of Zelienople, recently checked out the latest in modern technology at the Technology for Everyday Living Fair. Sponsored by Lutheran SeniorLife, the fair was last week for residents and their families at St. John Specialty Care Center in Mars and at Passavant Retirement Community in Zelienople. Both facilities are part of Lutheran SeniorLife, which offers various levels of care for seniors.
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Before the invention of the television, many families spent time huddled around the radio to listen to their favorite shows. One of those shows, Straight Arrow, aired in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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The recent death of Brooke Astor marks not only the end of the life of a great lady and major New York philanthropist, but also the end of an era. Over her lifetime of 105 years, she saw the invention of the automobile, the electric light, penicillin, television, computers and cell phones. Social advances have been just as dramatic. Birth control, Social Security and Medicare, votes for women and even a woman as a possible presidential candidate. I grew up feeling as though Mrs. Astor was some kind of distant relative even though our family circumstances were as modest as hers were wealthy.
