It’s hard to believe that something as arcane as the history of television’s invention makes good material for a Broadway play, but there it is: Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention opened December ...

If you want to know why there's so much talk on American television, check out "The Farnsworth Invention" at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood. But be prepared for a lot of talk, and much of it ...

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Scottish engineer John Logie Baird invented the first working TV in 1924 and, five years later, the Baird Televisor went on sale. Initially TVs were a luxury item for the wealthy, but thanks to price ...

That crawler along the bottom of your screen gained prominence during Gulf War coverage in the 1990s, with additional factoids being presented as a reporter spoke about the images on the screen. For ...

For example, Do you remember the earliest days of television? It was all Black and White. I remember going downtown to see the new invention, television. They had one in the street-side window at the ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. And the busy mother of this invention, Michele Mehl of Seattle, needed a workout she could take out. A park bench provided the inspiration. 'I just had the idea,' ...

A previously unaired Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention television special from 1974 is finally being released after sitting in the late artist’s vaults for more than 50 years. The two-hour ...