Buying a television was like buying a brand new car. In 1907 the word television was used by Scientific American magazine to describe the transmission of moving images. John L. Baird, a Scottish inventor, first broadcast a moving object in England, in 1926, using mechanical television. In 1923 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American and father of modern television, and Philo Taylor invented modern television using electronic scanning of television imagery. On September 7, 1927, Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the transmission of the television signal. Television innovations from the 1930s to the 1960s created a new way for the entire country to become involved in current events. In 1939 television was presented to the public at the New York World's Fair "The World of Tomorrow" (Frau-Meigs n.pag). Before that, the educator used television as an instructional tool. “DuMont marketed the first all-electronic home television” (Garvin 945-946), which allowed people to watch moving images. In 1939, RCA-Radio Corporation of America broadcast images of President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking at the opening of the New York World's Fair, the first president to appear on television. The role of the American media changed with the arrival of television in the 1930s. News and entertainment were broadcast across the nation by major broadcasters. The social life of Americans had changed and they began to stay home more often than to have fun. The phenomenon of bringing both image and sound to domestic audiences would soon shake the position of radio and print. Television became the most powerful mass medium, surpassing radio and print in the 1950s. Television begins... in the middle of the paper... and brings pleasure in the form of entertainment. Although television, a technology that produces moving images and current events, influenced America's life from the 1930s to the 1960s. They found a way to catch up by minimizing their use of television and maximizing their use of the outside world. Works Cited Bates, Christopher. “Media and politics”. Post-war America. Reference Sharpe Online (2013): n.pag. Network. 10 October 2013..Frau-Meigs, Divina. "Television." Post-war America. Online reference Sharpe (2013): n.pag.Web. October 09, 2013. Garvin, Karen S. “Television Technology.” The Thirties in America. Volume 3. Ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011. 945-946. Print.Portz, Stephen. "Who is the inventor of television?" Physlink.com: online physics and astronomy. PhysLink.com, 2013. Web. 15 October. 2013. .