john logie baird
vision, tele is the pre-fix
tele means distance or at a distance. vision means seeing or something seen. The word was television was likely inspired by telegraph and telephone/
tele= comes from the Greek word of "far" vision= comes from the Latin word of "visio"
Closed Circuit Tele Vision
Philo Farnsworth, an Idaho farm boy invented the first non-mechanical Tele-vision in 1927, but 1929 is the date if its first for-real broadcast. (Of his wife)
Tele is Greek for 'far' which is why we have tele-phone and tele-vision. Vision because we watch it. with our VISION. Really the question should have been the other way around, as "Why is a television called a TV?" Originally, the device was called a television [as explained in the previous answer], and later someone shortened that to TV, which is an acronym using the first letter of the words Tele and Vision.j3h.
from the word parts..Tele meaning distant and vision
A tele vision is used to get important information and also for fun
Alexander Graham Bell
Close Circuit Tele Vision. Closed Circuit Television
Alexander Graham Bell
No, television is not a compound noun because 'tele' is not a word itself, it's the prefix for the noun 'vision'. A compound word is made up of two separate words.