Editing Television (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''television'' comes {{ety|grc|''τῆλε'' (tele)|far|lat|visio|sight}}. The first documented usage of the term dates back to 1900, when the Russian scientist [[Constantin Perskyi]] used it in a paper that he presented in French at the first International Congress of Electricity, which ran from 18 to 25 August 1900 during the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|International World Fair]] in Paris.

The [[anglicized]] version of the term is first attested in 1907, when it was still "...a theoretical system to transmit moving images over [[telegraph]] or [[telephone wire]]s".<ref name="etymonline1">{{cite web|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=television |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |date=30 December 1969 |access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref> It was "...formed in English or borrowed from French {{lang|fr|télévision}}."<ref name="etymonline1"/> In the 19th century and early 20th century, other "...proposals for the name of a then-hypothetical technology for sending pictures over distance were telephote (1880) and televista (1904)."<ref name="etymonline1"/>

The abbreviation ''TV'' is from 1948. The use of the term to mean "a [[television set]]" dates from 1941.<ref name="etymonline1"/> The use of the term to mean "television as a medium" dates from 1927.<ref name="etymonline1"/>

The term ''telly'' is more common in the UK. The slang term "the tube" or the "boob tube" derives from the bulky [[cathode-ray tube]] used on most TVs until the advent of [[flat-screen TV]]s. Another slang term for the TV is "idiot box."<ref>{{cite news|author=Thompson, Robert|title=1985: Television Transformed 1.0|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=3 October 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/business/media/1985-television-transformed-1-0.html}}</ref>