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Show Monday. March 29. 1982. THK HERALD. Provo. Tell Me Why HEATHCLIFF i 1 LOSER When Was Television - N THE BOEN Utah-Pa- 13 ge By Art Sonsom 1 Invented? Rv ARKADY LEOKUM There was a whole chain of events that led to the development of television. It began in 1817 when a Swedish chemist named Jons Berzelius discovered the chemical element named "selenium." later it was found that the amount of electrical current selenium would carry depended on the amount of light that struck it. This property is called "photoelectricity." In 1875. this discovery led a United States inventor. G.R. Carey, to make the first crude television system using photoelectric cells. A scene or object FiftCE THAT UONCHEP A THOUSANP SHORT RIBS CAT FI6HT5 Frank Hill By -- VeSTECPAV AT THE1 QUEENS BlCTM PAY photoelectric cells, and another disk that revolved in front of the person . watching. In 1923 came the first practical transmission of pictures over wires and this was accomplished by Baird in England and Jenkins in the United States. Then came great improvements in the development of television cameras. Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth each developed a type of CHAMPAGNE PROM CC20A HIS camera, one known as the "iconoscope" and the other as the "image dissector." By 1945, both of these cameras had SME WEARS A I4EEE. SIZE SUPPEffl 70Nuvn ns Fl Asn II Buihmillir YES, EVERY MORNING DO I HAVE TO by the "image orthicon," Today television sets use a picture tube known as a "kinescope." Of course, this doesn't explain in any detail exactly how television works, but it gives you an idea of how many different developments and ideas had to be perfected by different people to make modern television possible. (Win four illustrated "Tell Me Why" hooks, with 1,500 questions answered. Spnd vour questions, name, age and address with zip code to "TELL ME WHY" in care of this newspaper. In rase of duplicate questions the author will deride the winner. Today's winner: Miles Shivelev, 8, Yorktown, Ind.) been replaced By Ernie NANCY )i- f- PEANUTS1 By Charles M. Schuli 5E?ThEY Only ALL Rl6HT, TEAM THIS YEAR THIN65 ARE 60IN6 TO BE PlFFERENT: KN0CKEP ONE SHOE OFF! FRANK AND ERNEST By Bob Thaves TAKE THAT STUFF AGAIN? ut Yu Have a AguT to lbhn Evolution, tNiE ZK'l S7 that revolved in front of the Mg KinS DG?ANK HE MUST HAVE HAD MANY was focused through a lens onto a bank of photoelectric cells. Each cell would send a different amount of electricity to one light bulb in a bank of bulbs so that each bulb gave off a different amount of light. Crude outlines of the object would then show in the lights of the bulbs. The next step was the invention of "the scanning disk" in 1884 by Paul Nipkow. It was a disk with holes in it i VI KERRY DRAKE X7 am wsr- - w i - By Alfred Andrlola BULL'S EYE, SAMPSON .' YOU K.O.'P THAT 1 r ,- 7, J BIG TROUBLE ON THAT IN TUS, LT. PRAKE Sw , s (7 DIP AMD rtPAMMV ADF Tl : IT UP WITH ONE OF CHANCE HOWARD HENCHMEN . ItA GOiNG DOWN ANP TniM TUP OA DTV 1 i jm m lit m - - FUN TIME The Chuckle Box Teacher: Order, children! Order! Pupil: I'll have ice cream and cake. WINTHROP By Dick Cavalli I StOTUPAT TCOBAPVOJ DAWN THl5MNINg-T- 5EE THE 6LINRI5E itset... V . lOUD v J A HAVE E?EEN A CINCH FOR A fUEST A HOT ON "60 MINUTES." Visitor: I never saw so many flies. Don't you ever shoo them? Farmer: No. We let them go barefoot. I'm that SQUEAK LIVER OIL COMING OUT OF EVERY PORE i i WORD PUZZLE I HAVE COD surprised my shoes u fl rB r ft I t 1M2 LtlV By Helmdahl BUGS BUNNY MARCH 2fl t Stellel y Umvtfiri By Cordon Bess REDEYE WANT TO 60 RSMlMG JERKVM1AH f Prut trftlicm CAIM'T 00 MUM CMiF. 60TTA SPRING CLEANING I PON'T KNOW WMR 5TART.TME FRYlN' PAN TUW OR Can you change the first word " dark" to the last word "lute" in four moves? Change one letter in the word to make a new word with each move. See tomorrow's paper for the answer. COfFtt TME ?DX (Win an illustrated "Tell Me Why" hook, with hundreds of questions answered. Send vour riddles and jokes to "RIDDLES, JOKES, TELL ME WHY" in care of this newspaper.) COPYRIGHT 1982 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE MARY WORTH This Day In History Press International Todav is Monday, March 29, the I C PRICILLA'S Mil day of By Al MILK. BUTTER, H BUTTEI?. PREAP-BUTTE?. BREAP'"( RIITTPI? W7Cil7' the RABBIT O Y ) HEV, Virmttr FWSCILLAJ GUE96 WHAT?.' TO A HEART SURGEON WHEN GROW UP.' I MACV HAVE 88th '1982 with 277 to follow. moon is moving toward its first quarter. POP ' MILK, ' MILK. i NANCY CARPENTER ANY WORD YET FROM TWF CALLEP ME FROM THE AIKTOKT, LITTLE AJM MOTHER- TO&X! oHE -TO 66, WONTCCWE TWO PAY6 By United The morning stars are Mercury, Venus. Mars. Jupiter and Saturn. There is no evening star. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. John Tyler, 10th president of the United States, was born March 29. 1790. On this date in history: In 1812. the first wedding was performed in the White House. Mrs. Lucy of Payne Washington, sister-in-laPresident James Madison, was married to Supreme Court Justice Thomas By Z ' TV HERE UNTIL Sounders 4 Ernst SHE DOESN'T WANTV HE'S f BEFORE HE GOES ON iTHE AIR JUDGING FROM THE SCOWLON HIS FACE HE6 i ! JOHN HAS PASSED SINCE LEAVING UlNhArr MARY CONTACTED WORK,'. JOHN CARPENTER'6 WIFE. STEVE ROPER AND MIKE NOMAD By Saunders & THBOM0'5 l rVOMftrHiNf WR0N6. ALLHUHT,' N0W 1 $T0?nP Wi'gg 60NMA THg CLOCK,' IMJUTT )AN Overgard CALl TH6 CLOCK 0MJ-SJTlSTOP U iftiit,ivl TlCKlNj, Dodd. In 1971, Army Lt. William Calley was guilty in the murder of 22 civilians in Vietnam. In 173. the last U.S. troops left South Vietnam and the last American prisoners of war were freed by North found Vietnam. In 1975, President Ford signed a $22.8 billion taxreduction bill enacted by Congress. A thought for the day: Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson said. "Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort." Longing for one's youth is a sure sign that you're getting childish. 4 : E- - (NEWSPAPER 1 1 Ti ALLEY ENTERPRISE ASSN.) By Dave OOP Craue 1 I'D LOVE T'SEE GUZ' FACE WHEN HE SEES WHAT WE LEFT HIM! BARBS T! GONE TO YEAH, BUT I'D XWE'RE GONNA HAFTA STEER RATHER BE HERE CLEAR OF MOO THAN THERE WHEN HE FINDS IT.' FOR A WHILE.' THERE IT IS,YER HIGHNESS.. ) GOOD OH, MY GOODNESS! GADFRY! JJ WHAT HAVE WE JUST LIKE I TOLD YOU! rr-- f -- v ei TTWNtn: t |