The Story of Television

By Zachary Kent

Book Overview

Discusses how television began as an entertainment form and grew to be also an instrument to teach, illuminate, and inspire. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0516047493
• ISBN13: 9780516047492
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Good synopsis of the history of television

Several major inventions have dramatically altered human society and television is one of them. It has been blamed for everything from the lowering of the academic performance of American youth, to the increase in their average weight. This book is a synopsis of the history of television, from the first ideas about transmitting an image with sound to descriptions of some of the most successful shows. While this is a good description of this society-altering invention, it is not something that is essential knowledge for children. However, it is also something that they will most likely be more interested in than the history of war or politics.