Prime Time 4, Workbook

First in colour! Summary: The history of television Match the sentence halves about the history of television. 1. The invention of television was it took until the early 20 th century for television to develop. 2. Although the idea of moving pictures had started around 1830, 3 to show pictures on a screen. 3. The first step was was done in black and white. 4. All television sets were a shared effort 1 of inventors from all over the world. 5. Until the 1950s most television broadcasting mechanical devices in the beginning. 1 effort – Anstrengung Reading: The story of Philo Farnsworth Read the story of Philo Farnsworth and his groundbreaking 2 invention. Then read the statements and tick T (= true), F (= false) or NG (= not given). Philo Farnsworth was a 14-year-old farmboy when he had an idea that changed the rest of his life. Farnsworth, who was born in Utah in 1906, had wanted to be an inventor since the age of six. He was extremely good at chemistry and physics in high school and even showed his science teacher a diagram of an electronic television system. After the death of his father, however, he took over the family farm to care for his family. According to relatives 3 he was plowing 4 a potato field in straight, parallel lines when he had the amazing idea that a picture could also be broken up into horizontal lines and then be put together again at the other end of a wire. By doing that, he was the first person to solve the problem of sending a picture without a mechanical device. In 1927, when he and his wife Elma were living in San Francisco, he managed to send a first picture, a simple straight line, to a screen in another room. Elma Farns- worth later said that her husband broke the surprised silence of his assistants by saying, “There you are – electronic television!” 2 groundbreaking – wegweisend 3 relatives – Verwandte 4 to plow – pflügen T F NG 1. Philo Farnsworth was very good at science in school.  2. Just like his father, he was an inventor. 3. At school he had an extraordinary new idea for showing a picture. 4. He built the first mechanical television set. 5. Later he moved to California to be closer to Hollywood. 6. The first picture he sent was of his wife, Elma. 1 2 27 Unit 5 Television and streaming twenty-seven Nur zu P üfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv