It is impossible give the credit of the invention of the television to only one individual. Like many pieces of technology, the television’s birth was a collective effort. In order to examine the roots of the modern day television, one would need to step back to even before the 1900s. Beginning as early as 1844, with Paul Nipkow’s image scanning system, to Vladimir Zworykin’s invention of the “iconoscope” in 1923, the evolution of the television was a rich process. (Peters 9) The collection, American Decades acknowledges the slow and steady development of the
