It’s a Sunday morning, and you curl up on the couch in front of the TV. You have a comfy pillow and popcorn next to you, and the day just couldn’t get any better. You turn on your TV…but wait…something is wrong. Your TV has lost all its colour! The images are only in black and white! You frantically try to change the channel, but nothing is changing on the screen. Oh no! You have only one channel! 
This seems like something out of a classic horror movie, right? But that’s how televisions were for the longest time!
TVs have come a long way from the primitive, black and white TVs to the advanced, digital colour TVs we use today. With November 21 being World Television Day, for this month’s The Evolution of Everything, let’s take a look inside the box in our living rooms and track its evolution.
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Today TVs have more features than ever before. Some of these features are what we see in smartphones and laptops like internet connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity, and touchscreens to name a few.
TVs have been on a long journey since their inception. Can you spot the differences between the TV in your house and the first mechanical models of the 1920s? What are the differences you can find?
Let us know in the comments!
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Comments
P. Vishesh
March 2, 2020
Can you make on evolution of phones?Please.
Ritwik
February 1, 2020
Great
Nithya
January 28, 2020
Amazing
Nithya
January 28, 2020
Wow amazing and informative
Anuvarsha
January 28, 2020
Pls let me know about evolution of birds
Gautam Narang
January 28, 2020
I was really inquisitive to know about the evolution of our t.v. Thank for the information team Byju’s.
K R Gautam
January 19, 2020
The quick fact was unknown for me
Chirag
January 14, 2020
Please make how books were evolved
Dhruv Metri
January 3, 2020
This is so informative and amazing
Vijay singh
January 2, 2020
This is amazing and so creative
Abhishek Karmakar
December 31, 2019
This is informative. It’s good to learn the evolution of a device on which I watch movies like Avengers or Deadpool.
TISHA
December 24, 2019
WOW AMAZING I WAS NOT KNOWING THAT THEY WILL BE SO MANY TYPES OF TV
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December 21, 2019
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December 19, 2019
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simran
December 15, 2019
please make one more story on how the telegram evolved
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December 13, 2019
Please make one on evolution of mobile phones.
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December 11, 2019
I love to learn these things n more information that we did not known.
Nalin.k
December 11, 2019
Now I understand the history of ?
Ayushi
December 7, 2019
Can you tell how is the phone came in .nice learning facts? I want more like this
Sairam
December 6, 2019
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V .Divyaa dharsini
December 5, 2019
Superb.
Kameshwari
December 3, 2019
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Shifali
December 3, 2019
Informative and wow im now interested to learn more about these sort of stuffs. Can’t wait for more!
Yathartha Pawar
December 3, 2019
Please make one on evolution of vehicles or mobile phones.
Sai Vaibhav
December 3, 2019
How will they make TV’s.john logi Baird was so intelligent
D.Thirupathi
November 30, 2019
Please tell me the evolution of human beings
Ashwin
November 30, 2019
Can you give some information on rocket?
S.Niharila
November 29, 2019
This is very interesting and learnt many things about televisions.
Poojha
November 29, 2019
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Sara
November 28, 2019
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Ritikashree
November 27, 2019
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Chintalapati Sailaja
November 27, 2019
Nice and interesting. Please make like these facts on 26 /11 so that we easily remember them also .
I love learning facts like these
Mehuli Dutta
November 26, 2019
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Gayathri Anoop
November 25, 2019
Thank you for the information…..
Nischay
November 25, 2019
Something about aeroplane were envolved
Tab
November 25, 2019
Thanks allot
Chetan Nagda
November 25, 2019
Good and knowledge full
Som Satwik Deo
November 25, 2019
I didn’t know that mechanical TVs are also there thank you byjus for this kind information I AM PROUD TO BE A BYJUITE
Chirasmita meher
November 25, 2019
Thank you Byju team for clear information, need more video related to invention of other things
HARSHITHAA
November 25, 2019
Surprised to know that there existed mechanical TVs. The article is more informative and useful.
Sameeha
November 24, 2019
I love watching television….and now I realised how it came into reality and even to my home
Thanks to byjus for such an information…
I am also one of your student
Adwait
November 24, 2019
It was realy amazing!!!!!!!
Adarsh
November 24, 2019
Nice fact thnx byjus
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Pratyush Garg
November 24, 2019
This is wonderful
Adhya Asati
November 24, 2019
Nice isn’t it
Arpita Ranjan
November 24, 2019
Amazing and full of informations
Arpita Ranjan
November 24, 2019
It’s very much interesting and full of informations. Expect for the more stories about the things which we use in our day-to-day life☺☺☺☺
Chinmaya Nayak
November 24, 2019
Excellent information about television from byjus…..loved it…. thank you byjus
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November 24, 2019
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November 24, 2019
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Vidvat pai
November 24, 2019
Very nice information given to us. Thank you!
Mihit Saxena
November 23, 2019
Below are the difference
1. In 1920 Black and white but now we have colors
2. In 1920 size of the tv was very small but now no limits.
3. In 1920 we operate manually but now remotes are available.
Mihit Saxena
November 23, 2019
Thanks for nice information
Hinal patel
November 23, 2019
Thanks byjus to give information to us
Anushka
November 23, 2019
Very nice this is too informative
Sameer
November 23, 2019
Very informative and interesting.
We get to know the technologies used in that time.
Because of these great scientist we are able to watch television.
Hads off to their innovative brain
Swastika
November 23, 2019
The TV in 1920s seems more like a sewing machine. Now even our mobile phones have a screen bigger than it.
S.V.Vishal
November 23, 2019
Interesting facts about TV,Now I clarified
my doubt about TV.
NITHILAKSHANA
November 23, 2019
Good facts about television .thank you byjus.
Priya
November 23, 2019
I really like this. It is very very… interesting
Sasmit verma
November 23, 2019
Can’t believe tv,s used to be this small
Niranjan
November 23, 2019
Amazing nice and information
K. Srithajani
November 23, 2019
I will watch TV every day but I never thought about this and I am happy to know about this one. It is very interesting
to know these things
K. Srithajani
November 23, 2019
I will watch TV every day but I never thought about this.
This is very interesting and I am happy to know about this ???
Anvi Yadav
November 22, 2019
Fab,brilliant,fantastic
Anvi Yadav
November 22, 2019
I score great in maths and science only because of Byjus
Aryan Heranjwala
November 22, 2019
Great Evolution…
Well I learnt about a new thing today
???
Aryan Heranjwala
November 22, 2019
Great Evolution…
Well I learnt about a new thing today
Proud Byjunite ???
Nitin
November 22, 2019
Difference between mechanical tv and my tv in home
The quality of picture in mechanical TV is very low then my TV in home
Picture in the mechanical TV is very small as compared to the picture in my TV in home
The mechanical TV of the 1920 is black and white while my TV has a millions of colour other than black and white
LED TV in my home is smart and connect with whole world through internet
Bhumi Singh
November 22, 2019
It helps us to known about many things.
Mukutraj navgan
November 22, 2019
Interesting
M.K.DHARSHHAN
November 22, 2019
i read this fully. and its very useful for me.
its very interesting
nawaf shaik
November 22, 2019
nawaf shaik can u help me make a time table for the preparation of
9th as well as 20 th class thank u.
Razin Keelath
November 22, 2019
Informative facts and knowledge from Byjus. Proud being a Byjuite.
Do the evolution of mobiles and laptops or computers.
G.N.HARIHARASUDHAN
November 22, 2019
Very interesting one from you
Aryan Gujarathi
November 22, 2019
Awesome evolution as well as unbelievable evolution!!!
Ashna
November 22, 2019
Wow.Super
Paras gupta
November 22, 2019
Very nice work
Jinisha Patel
November 22, 2019
Good knowledge sharing for TV Revolution.
Jinisha Patel
Museb shaikh
November 22, 2019
WOW!Nice evolution of television. Thanks byju’s for
giving knowledge about television. Thank you.
Mann jawla
November 22, 2019
I am lerning from byju .
They are much better
And interesting .
They have colours.
How amazing ?
Museb shaikh
November 22, 2019
Wow!Nice evolution of television. Thanks byju’s
for giving this information about television.
Thank you.
Niharika Khedekar
November 22, 2019
Interesting
Siddhartha
November 22, 2019
Please make one on the evolution of vehicles
Manav Philip
November 21, 2019
awesome
Gauri Akerkar
November 21, 2019
Through the call it becomes easy to share
Trishan Saha
November 21, 2019
Wow!
Vartika
November 21, 2019
The evolution has been great until now…man is evolving at a very appreciative pace
A very big thank you to BYJU’S for all the fantastic and eye-popping facts..:-)
Akshara
November 21, 2019
Please help me in my social studies. For climate chapter of geography of 9th CBSE
Ayan
November 21, 2019
Thanks a lot dear byjus very good information
Ayan
November 21, 2019
Very good information by byjus thanks a lot dear byjus
Suhani periwal
November 21, 2019
A really great evolution of TV but the credit goes to Barid
Vedanshi
November 21, 2019
My TV is 55 inches so it is a lot bigger than the mechanical one.
The TVs now only come in rectangles whereas earlier the televisions came in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
I really think how people could live with only one channel.
Hima P S
November 21, 2019
Although I don’t watch TV, it’s great to know about its history.
Nivedita pal
November 21, 2019
Thanku byjus for this amazing information
Utkarsha
November 21, 2019
Thank you for this wonderful information
Soham bhardwaj
November 21, 2019
Great byjus keep sending this types of interesting facts and information to us
Soham bhardwaj
November 21, 2019
Great byjus keep sending this types interesting facts and information to us
Thankyou byjus,
Saish
November 21, 2019
1. The first television invented was not
as complex as which we have now….
2.The first televisions had a limited
scope to watch…. But now we have a
variety…..
PRASANJIITH
November 21, 2019
Wonderful information
Sudhakar verma
November 21, 2019
1920s tv was 1st type of tv in the world. Progress was
Towards more and more so, no the tvs are in digital way
Tt is a long journey.
Shubh Saini
November 21, 2019
Today’s T.Vs are much more advance than the ones in 1920s….. As we read in the above lines, the Mechanical
T.Vs had a very low quality and had a display screen as much as the size of tea cup!! And the major difference is that the
Mecanical T.Vs did not have color and had only 1 channel but the modern T.Vs(thankfully) do not have any of this quality
Thank You!!!
S kareemulla
November 21, 2019
It is wonderful that even I also don’t know about it
Asif
November 21, 2019
I want to prepair myself for NDA from class 9 only i want to know the different topic which come in NDA exams
Vaibhav
November 21, 2019
On next year the television will completes it’s 100 years of journey
Wow
Thanks byju’s for giving us this information about the television ????
THANK YOU
Naveen Jangra
November 21, 2019
It was a very affective article and it shown us the history of TVs. I think nobody knowns history of TVs in my family but I know and now I will tell to all my family members ‘History of TVs’. I hope that BYJU’S will give us these articles regularly so that we will get to know what was the history of these things that we are using now-a-days. Thank you BYJU’S for providing this article to us.
Vaibhav
November 21, 2019
The first television was launched in 1920 and after 10 years another type and after 20 years another type of television and it was the only television which runs about 50 years and after that the digital television came.
What a amazing evolution of television ???????????????
Gargi Sharma
November 21, 2019
Wow…..I never knew there were many types of TV’s???????☺️
Vaibhav
November 21, 2019
Amazing!!
Vatsalya
November 21, 2019
I am a BYJUITE and I love to learn these things from Byjus.
Nirvaira
November 21, 2019
Yo I am the first person here
I loved it . Sooooo….. interesting
Vatsalya
November 21, 2019
I am a BTJUITE and I love to learn these things from Byjus.
Aaditya Anand
November 21, 2019
Please make one on how vehicles were evolved
Aaditya Anand
November 21, 2019
Nice and informative