CRT Receivers for Mechanical Transmissions

As early as the late 20s, experimentation was going on with the use of cathode ray tubes to display television images. Philo Farnsworth displayed a crude image in 1927, and Max Dieckerman did the same in 1928. By 1929 Vladimir Zwoykin, then with Westinghouse, was experimenting with CRT receivers. In the early 30s, Purdue University made a CRT receiver for mechanical television, as did Television Manufacturing Co. and Harry Lubke at W6XAO, but the first successful CRT receiver was probably made by RCA in 1932.

Popular Radio, May 1928