In an art class, children browse through space-age knobs, robot antennas and gyroscopic signal searchers. They extend space needle antennas before turning on an old TV. They discover the sights and sounds of televisions past, hearing the hiss, the gathering power, and seeing the blinking eye, the black-and-white light and blurry images projected on their skin. In this lesson the author shares the bounty of a first-generation TV child, the visual interest the new media held, and the fantasy the early days of television inspired in American designers.