The television is one of the wonders of modern science. With the invention of television we are on the threshold of a new era. Radio brought us voice hut television has added vision to it. It was invented by J. L. Baird, a British scientist in 1923 and the American scientist C.G. Jenkins, made great improvements on Baird’s instrument.
The television may be called a mini-cinema. Like cinema it gives u both sights anti sounds simultaneously. It not only makes the distant objects visible but also helps to hear what sound they make. Thus brings us in close contact with the real world outside: On a T.V. set we can see the president presenting the Academy Award, Prime Minister receiving the foreign dignitaries, a batsman scoring a century amidst the applause of thousands of spectators or a cosmonaut flying in hi spacecraft.
The utility of television is unlimited in modern life. Now we need not go out in sun and shower of witness a football match of a theatre at the risk of our life or limb. We can easily and comfortably enjoy them on a T.V. screen in our drawing room. Discussions are now held before our eyes by intellectuals and VIP’s. Thus the T.V. has brought the whole world into our drawing room.
But T.V. has its evil effects too. It has become a status-symbol. It’s craze with the youngsters to attend regular T.V. programme. Excessive fondness for T.V. is injurious to eyesight. Young students are sometimes so much attracted to it that they waste their valuable time and neglect their studies. So we should better choose the T.V. programme and utilise the television in belier way.
