Dapat dari email...just wanna share with everybody... It's 80 years since televisions first went on sale in the shops. On July 3, 1928 you could have popped into your local electronics emporium and picked up a TV made by the Daven Corporation for the princely sum of $75. The telly has come a long way since then, with high-definition LCD and plasma screens now taking the place of more traditional, boxy sets. The 1920s The first commercially available TV sets went on sale in the United States in 1928. Pictures were viewed on tiny screens, just a couple of inches in size. The set pictured above was constructed from a plan published in the December 1928 and January 1929 issues of Popular Mechanics. Daven Corporation, which made the first TVs to be sold in shops, also made all the components used to build this early set. The 1930s Early television sets were mechanical, but by the 1930s TVs had become entirely electronic. During this decade, John Logie Baird made the first ever outsid...