Television History

Mechanical TV
- Gallery
- Database Summary
- Sets at the Museum
- Restoration
- Broadcasting
- Advertising
- Roger DuPouy's Site
- Peter Yanczer's Site
Pre-1945 TV
- Gallery
- Database Summary
- American Sets at the Museum
- British Sets at the Museum
- Restoration
- Broadcasting
- Technical Information
- Other Equipment
  - Antennas
  - CRTs
  - Test Equipment
  - VHF Boosters
- Advertising
Postwar TV
- American Postwar TV
- British/European Postwar TV
- Postwar TV in the Rest of the World
- Restoration
- Postwar Broadcasting
- Technical Information
- Other Equipment
  - Accessories
  - Antennas
  - CRTs
  - Test Equipment
- Advertising
Early Color TV
- Gallery
- Database Summary
- Color TV Systems
- Sets at the Museum
- Restoration
- Broadcasting
- Technical Information
- CRTs
- Advertising
- Pete Deksnis's Site
- Ed Reitan's Color Television History
CRT Rebuilding
- Rebuilding Tubes at the Museum
- Donations
The Foundation and Museum
- Early Television Foundation
- About the Museum
- Directions to the Museum
- Friends of the Museum
- Equipment Donations

Early Television Museum

These links will take you to articles, stories, and other information about the history of early television.

Mechanical Television	Brief history
How Television Came to Boston	Mechanical TV in Boston
Mechanical broadcasting stations	History of U. S. mechanical stations
Baird Television	John Logie Baird
Introduction to the History of Television	Texts on television before 1900
Los Angeles TV Reminiscing	Don Lee, other early broadcasting
The First TV in Columbus ?	OSU student made a receiver in 1928
Early Television Receivers in Columbus, Ohio	The story of Murry Mercier, Jr., an early Columbus, Ohio TV experimenter
Watching Remote Baseball Games Live Before Television	Article by Mark Schubin

Pre-1945 Television	Brief history
The Evolution of the Damper Diode	History by Dr. Hugo Holden
The Dawn of Modern, Electronic Television	Paper by Nat Pendleton
The Farnsworth Chronicles	The story of Philo Farnsworth
Zworykin's 1933 Photo Album	Early photos from Zworykin's lab
Eight Years of Television in California	Early television in California
Los Angeles TV Reminiscing	Don Lee, other early broadcasting
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia	Early television in Philadelphia
Andrea 1-F-5 Found	Prewar set found in New Jersey
RCA TT-5 Found	Prewar set found in Springfield, MO
Pre-1945 Television Stations	History of stations in the U. S. before and during WW2
KSTP	Minneapolis-St. Paul
TV During World War Two	Brief history

The DuMont Network	History of the DuMont Network
Stratovision	Airborne TV stations
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth	Television coverage of 1953 coronation

Early Color	Brief history
History of Early Color Television	Comprehensive history by Ed Reitan

Alexandra Palace Television Society	Site of the first British TV studios
ABC-TV at Gore Hill in the Fifties	Australia
Brazilian TV history	The first television broadcasting in Latin America
First TV Shop in London ?	Pictures of an early TV shop
Envisioning the Audience: perceptions of early German television's audiences, 1935-1944	German TV before WW2 by William Uricchio
Early French Broadcasting	French early electronic television
A Brief History of German Prewar Television	Brief history by Nat Pendleton
1936 Olympics - December 1986 EBU Review	Early German TV
Kenjiro Takayanagi	Japanese TV
History of TV in Mexico	(In Spanish)
The first TV station in Mexico	Translated to English
Early Television in Italy	Article by Andy Emmerson
TV in Leningrad	Russian TV
RCA's Russian TV Connection	Article by James O'Neal
TV in Czechoslovakia	History of TV from 1948 to 1990