what technology came before TV?
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the radio it was made by moroni with the first station kdk in pittsburgh
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Milatary radios were probably first with that. In the year 2006 every cell phone company in the world will have it.
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huge achievement based on technology in that day
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TVs use cathode ray tubes to provide the picture, they need time to "warm up" before you can see the picture.  The speakers that relay the sound though are basically instantaneous.
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Because all their life since creation ppl strove to invent a television set, but since they were so set on this goal they always missed the obvious details... Like you know stone tools, then maybe metal, eventually language, writing, electricity... And once they realized they needed those to build the almighty television they set out to work on it, however since they're minds were set on the creation of the television they were very slow at it. And that is why we just invented it so recently... But, hey, now we can all just lay in front of it and have not a care in our lil' minds... mmmm... yeah...
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The television remote control. It causes "couch potatos", and an even more sedentary lifestyle than before. At least we used to get up to change the channel. And I believe that we used to consider what was on TV and make a judgement, before getting up, but now people just "channel surf" and watch all the junk that's put before them. More time spent watching TV.
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the obvious a television
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On a television set perhaps?
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Technology that is very, very, very small. Working things that are so small you can't see them with your plain eye.
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This comes from the History of Devices\nRadio "sets" which predated TV sets, were called sets, as they were built up from a "set" of components. A valve set ( tuner) and an accumulator ( battery) etc. So when you went to purchase a radio, you had to buy each component, once you had the "set", you got a working device. As Radios developed, everything was then put in one box, but still referred to as a set. Similarly for TV's, although everything is in one box, it is referred to as a "set"
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Realistically? The search for knowledge has led to, or had a significant contribution to, the development of microwaves, radar, radio, superconductivity, computers, refridgeration, digital cameras, the internet and much more. When the theories that underpin most of these inventions were first discovered and tested, many people asked the same question - how does this help me? And then 20 years later some clever engineer invents a little box that heats up food. So give it time - almost every invention know to man once started as someone saying "I wonder how this works?"
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the radio/stereo, television, phone, cameras, electricity
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Here's an interesting page about early PC's. Keep scrolling down when the page opens.  It's rather interesting. \nhttp://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml\n\nAnd, here's Wiki's entry:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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1989 First multifunctional measuring device with a softkey user interface, insertable program and memory cards, and insertable hardware modules to allow configuration of the hardware as required\n\n\nrefer:\n\nhttp://www.pruftechnik.com/pt/history.htm
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Absolutely, there was a time before "tv" and "AC" that families used set on front porches on summer evenings and conversed with neighbors as they "walked" pass.\nToday with cell phones in hand, we don’t even have time or social space to speak to them, even if we were still on our porches.\nAlmost every home has the living room arranged around the tv  so as to discourage conversation and fix attention on the tv. \nTV dinners, tv trays, under counter tv's most of us don't have very much practice at social interaction.\nElectronic games, tv and computers have replaced outside playing for our children.. Most of us don't know any of our neighbors beyond the one next door.\nChanges in almost every area of social interaction has reduced the need to know and care about those we live around..\nEven our jobs are no longer lifetime careers but we change as technology does.\nWe are more mobile. We no longer stay in one community all our lives but make several changes during our adult lives. \nBusing has ended community schools etc   etc   etc.\nSo many changes based on technology that polite social interaction of yester year is gone forever.
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Yeah you need to see what they have today, that technology is so fifteen years ago.  You don't find out about technology until its ancient history.
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Past - Really Big Calculators. Originally considered no more than a number cruncher, 'programs' were primarily business oriented. Accounting, Scientific, etc. At the time, only a handful of people on the planet ever considered they would be more than the 'science fiction' movies of the time portrayed them.\nPresent - Computer jargon is very much a part of our ordinary lives. Nearly every appliance in a modern house contains more computing power than that which ran the moonshot missions. A significant percentage of the world's populace could not conceive of a world without computers. More than business, computers are our entertainment, our transportation, communication, our virtual life.\nFuture - Further human integration. Smart Computers will run our everyday lives: feeding us, tools for work & play, our sole means of communication with those around us. Further progress for implants into humans will allow 'hands free' operation. No money, cards, phones, etc. will be required past the optics to access personal links to the worldwide net.\n\nIf we happen to survive that long.