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.
Alexander Graham Bell
from the word parts..Tele meaning distant and vision
A tele vision is used to get important information and also for fun
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.