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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.
 

Database of surviving early cameras
Gallery of early broadcast equipment

 

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
BBC studio - 1935 NBC prewar studio tour
Camera tubes RCA broadcast equipment price sheet - 1948
Eiffel Tower transmitter RCA remote equipment - 1937
Farnsworth prewar stations RCA remote equipment - 1948
Federal Transmitter for CBS Color RCA studio camera - 1939
George Fathauer founder of Dage Remington Rand Orthicon Camera - 1941
German TV studios 1935-39 Safar studio and transmitter - 1939
KDYL Salt Lake City 1939 RCA cameras The museum's flying spot scanning camera

 

 

 

These items are in our collection

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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 TM-21B 21" Color monitor

 

 

RCA Television monitors

 

RCA TT-5A Transmitter

 

 

RCA "TV Eye" Vidicon camera

 

 

RCA TP-16

 

 

 

Western Electric Monitor

 

 

 

WW2 Airborne Camera 

 

 

 

 

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