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Originally Posted by Quoth
Before 1935 electronic TV barryem?
Or before 1924 start of Mechanical TV after hours using broadcast transmitters.
USA had TV during WWII, but in UK it was turned off in September 1939.
My dad was born before Electronic TV, but didn't have a TV at home till about 1958.
BBC R4 still has some dramatised books on Radio as well as narrated books. Audio books have the biggest growth at over 20%.
I do think titles in a Series should be complete stories or else it's really a serial.
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I was born in 1940. If there was TV in other places there wasn't in Texas, which we moved to when I was 5. I saw my first TV when we went to visit my grandmother in Connecticut. I think I was 9. I do know I was in the third grade. Prior to that summer I never heard of TV.
When we came back to Texas after that summer and I went back to school we had a science teacher who went from class to class giving science lectures and she told us about TV. She explained that there was a dot of light that moved across the screen and made you think you were seeing a picture but in fact there was no picture, and that the inevitable result of that was that in a few hours you would go blind. There still was no TV in Texas so nobody knew anything about it.
I raised my hand and explained that I'd watched a lot of TV that summer and I could see just fine. I was sent to the principal's office for contradicting her and when I argued about what I'd seen I was sent home and had to have my parents come talk to them before I could get back into school.
I'll be 80 in November and sure enough my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be so maybe she was right.
Barry