Television, since it was launched on the market, has been considered a bad influence for many people. This is not the case. Television is a major factor in increasing the amount of happiness in one's life. Television was actually never made by just one person, but by several inventors who contributed to its creation around the world over a long period of time. The first major discovery for the creation of TV occurred in 1873, when Louis May and Willoughby Smith in England discovered that the electrical conductivity of the element selenium is increased by light. In 1880 French investigators discovered that the only way to transmit images was to scan them ("Television" T-126). John Logie Baird from England and C. Francis Jenkins from the United States made the first public demonstrations of TV in 1925 (“How Television Is Made”).C. Francis Jenkins sent moving pictures while working on his experiment in 1925, by 1931 he had set up experimental stations in New York and Washington DC (“How Television Is Made”). Much earlier, in 1884, Paul Nipkow in Germany had invented the perforated rotating disk needed for image transmission. He was not alone, AA Cambell-Swinton and a Russian, Boris Rosing, independently suggested using a cathode ray tube to reproduce television images electronically. Before the First World War, television was just a theory and wasn't even thought to be a possibility. In 1936 television broadcasts became possible thanks to the mechanical scanning system invented by John Logie Baird (“Television” T-127). The foundation of TV was laid by the all-electronic system, created by two men named Farnsworth and Zworykin. To make a television work properly you need to see... middle of paper......g the amount of happiness in your life. It does this by releasing stress, making children happy. It does this by relieving stress, making children happy and turning even the worst day into a beautiful one. There are no problems watching it. Just make sure you don't look at it too much. Works Cited Bailey, Rachel L., Julia R. Fox, and Maria Elizabeth Brabe. “The Influence of Message and Audience Characteristics on Television News Grazing Behavior.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 57.3 (2013): 318-337. Elite academic research. Network. January 26, 2014. Ronca, Debra. “Is Too Much TV Really Bad for Your Eyesight?” How things work. howstuffworks.com, August 20, 2009. Web. January 26, 2014. “Television.” New standard encyclopedia. Ed. David C. Hayes. vol. 17. Chicago” Ferguson Publishing Company, 2000. Print. "Television". How television is made. Advmeg and Web. 26 January 2014.