The Roaring 20s

TECHNOLOGY

Background Information

The U.S became wealthy at the end of World War I

1920-1929 A decade of great prosperity

Advertising & Media

The advertisements looked like cartoons.

Sports & Radio

Baseball Boxing

Transportation

Mass Production

Television

1924-1925 American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits. In 1925, John Logie Baird invented the first working television. John Baird becomes the first person to transmit moving silhouette images using a mechanical system. The mechanical system that allowed 30 lines of resolution system running at 5 frames per second In 1927 Baird demonstrated the color television. In 1928 television was introduced to the United States In 1929 the first TV studio opened.

Cities

How did technology have a huge impact in the 1920s?

Work Cited

"1920's Television." Imagining the Internet. Elon University School of Communications, n.d. Web. 18 Nov. 2012. <http://www.elon.edu/eweb/predictions/150/1930.xhtml>.