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Early Broadcast Equipment

The earliest cameras (1926-1933) were generally flying spot scanner types. In the 30s the Image Dissector camera tube was invented by Philo Farnsworth. About 1936 the first iconoscope cameras were developed by RCA. After World War Two the image orthicon became the standard, and in the mid 50s the vidicon was developed.
 

Gallery of early broadcast equipment
Database of surviving early cameras

More on Early Broadcast Equipment

Amateur television camera - 1938 KSTP Twin Cities 1939 RCA camera
Amateur television camera - 1940 Marconi E. M I. Emitron camera brochure
Amateur television station - 1949 The Museum's mechanical camera 
BBC studio - 1935 National Schools mechanical camera
Camera tubes NBC prewar studio tour
Eiffel Tower transmitter RCA broadcast equipment price sheet - 1948
Farnsworth prewar stations RCA remote equipment - 1937
Federal Transmitter for CBS Color RCA studio camera - 1939
George Fathauer founder of Dage Remington Rand Orthicon Camera - 1941
German TV studios 1935-39 Remote television vans - postwar
Intermediate film mobile television camera Safar studio and transmitter - 1939
KDYL Salt Lake City 1939 RCA cameras Two tube vidicon color camera - 1975

 

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Dage 650 15" Color Monitor

 

 

Dage Industrial Camera

 

 

 

Diamond Power Image Dissector Camera

 

 

DuMont demodulator

 

 

Flying Spot Scanner Camera

 

 

 

General Electric 4TM-15 15" Color Monitor

 

 

 

General Electric PC-2

 

 

 

 

General Electric PC-4 

 

 

 

General Electric PE-350 Color Camera

 

 

General Electric TM-5-A Studio Monitor

 

 

Gray Research Field Sequential Monitor

 

 

 

ARI Monoscope Test Pattern Generator

 

 

 

RCA 1939 Iconoscope Field Camera

 

 

 

RCA TJ-48 Van

 

 

RCA TK-20

 

 

 

RCA TK-31

 

 

 

RCA TK-41

 

 

RCA TK-60

 

RCA TM-21B 21" Color monitor

 

 

RCA Television monitors

 

 

RCA TP-16

 

RCA "TV Eye" Vidicon camera

 

 

RCA TT-5A Transmitter

 

 

 

Thomson-CSF Microcam

 

 

Western Electric Monitor

 

 

 

WW2 Airborne Camera