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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Prosperity and Cold War Fears 1945 60: Popular Culture and Mass Media

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the impact that rock and roll music, movies and the invention of television had on America in the 1950s.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Iconoscope 1923

For Students 9th - 10th
American inventor Vladimir Zworykin, the "father of television," conceived two components key to that invention: the iconoscope and the kinescope.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: People and Discoveries: Television Is Developed, 1926

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives a brief account of the inventors and developments that lead up to the creation of television.