| May 17 |
More pictures of Tel-Instrument Co. 2401 monitor |
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More pictures of RCA TK-25 prototype film chain |
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Museum sets restored by volunteers |
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Airmaster postwar american set |
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| May 16 |
More on CT-100 Engineering sample |
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| May 15 |
CT-100 Engineering sample |
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B+ booster |
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RCA 1954 TV Filmstrip - Courtesy of Matt D'Asaro |
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| May 14 |
Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Andrea 2-F-12 and RCA TRK-5 added |
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| May 13 |
New acquisition: RCA TK-25 prototype film chain |
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| May 5 |
New acquisions: Zenith Christmas dealer displays |
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| May 3 |
Tel-Instrument Co. 2401 monitor |
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Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated:Tel-Instrument 2401 monitor added |
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| May 2 |
Nick Williams CRT rebuilding progress report |
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| Apr 30 |
Westinghouse H22T155 operating manual |
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| April 29 |
Mechanical station W8KVD in Columbus, Ohio |
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| April 19 |
New acquisition: Ampex VR-660 VTR |
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Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added |
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| April 12 |
Mechanical TV demonstration at the Iowa State Fair (1931) |
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| April 10 |
New aquisition: Silvertone 7270, donated to the museum by John Folsom |
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| Aoril 8 |
W9XD Milwaukee |
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General Electric HM-185 on Display in Portland, Oregon |
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Obituary of Bob Degrass, Inventor of Colordaptor |
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| Mar 26 |
Pioneer mechanical scanner advertisement |
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| Mar 25 |
General Electric Talaria |
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Television set production - 1950 |
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RCA Tube Handbook HB3 |
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| Mar 19 |
Western Television 1930 Lens Disk prototype |
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| Mar 7 |
Television Image Reaches Africa |
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Television, FDR and the 1940 Presidential Conventions |
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| Mar 2 |
Presenters announced for the Early Television Convention |
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Swenson's to provide food truck for Friday evening at the Convention |
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Newark, New Jersey TV demonstration (1928) |
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| Feb 28 |
Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Marconi 709 added |
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| Feb 26 |
Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Hartman Model 24 added |
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Hartman Model 24 |
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| Feb 25 |
More on Re-Nu Radio and Television College |
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Ampex CC324 advertisement |
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| Feb 18 |
Help get our display sets working again |
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| Feb 17 |
Nearby motels for the Convention |
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Creating a Home TV Transmitter |
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| Feb 16 |
Baird and Farnsworth - site describing Baird's use of the image dissector in the BBC television trials in 1935 |
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
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| Feb 13 |
W6VSV, amateur telecaster |
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W6XAO transmitter site with swimming pool |
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| Feb 8 |
Another Hollywood Radio & TV Institute membership card |
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Hybridge TV kits |
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Ray-Lectron coil kit |
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| Feb 5 |
Archonian Club of Indianapolis TV demonstration |
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1937 Harry Lubke TV set |
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Delta, Colorado TV demonstration (1938) |
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Sams PF Reporter 1951 CRT substitution Chard |
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Window display for USTV T-530 |
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| Feb 3 |
Indianapolis Y.M.C.A. television station |
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Indianapolis prewar TV demonstrations |
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| Feb 1 |
Registration now open for the 2022 Early Television Convention |
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| Jan 30 |
Sanabria demonstration at W. H. Block, and Indianapolis, Indiana State Fair |
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| Jan 22 |
Purdue University picture synchronization method |
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| Jan 20 |
Webster-Chicago "Slave" color converter |
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Edinburg Inventor Takes Rap at Critics |
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1968 NBI magazine article about East German experimental color studio |
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Admiral C322C series brochure |
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A Special Offer for RCA Employees - upgrade your 630-TS to 12 inch CRT |
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| Jan 19 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Admiral C322C series added |
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| Jan 8 |
New acquisition: Diamond Power STV-4 vidicon camera |
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New acquisition: Ampex CC-324 vidicon camera |
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| Jan 6 |
Murphy A56V, Murphy A42V, GEC BT-3701, Pye 815 and 1939 Philips projection set advertisements |
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More on East German PTT modified NTSC monitor |
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| Jan 5, 2022 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: East German PTT modified NTSC monitor |
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East German PTT modified NTSC monitor |
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Summary of mechanical, early electronic, and color sets added 2005-2021 |
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Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Western 41 and an unidentified set added |
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| Dec 26 |
Ad for Burndept prewar set |
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Jean Harlow with an unidentified mechanical set |
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| Dec. 13 |
Goncam 1952 cameras |
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| Dec. 10 |
Baird and the Farnsworth image dissector |
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| Dec. 6 |
COARA Holiday Party |
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| Dec. 5 |
Surviving early electronic set database summary updated: General Electric HM-171 added |
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| Nov. 28 |
Lease a HMV 900 |
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Science and Media Museum article about Scophony - March 21, 2014 |
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Television Development Committee brochure |
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Portland, Oregon's first TV set |
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| Nov. 14 |
Set previously identified as Gilfillan G12 is actually a RCA TRK-120 |
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| Nov. 12 |
November online meeting of the Early Television Museum community. November 20 at 8:00 PM EST |
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| Nov. 11 |
New acquisition: RCA TRK-120 |
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New acquisition: RCA 630PCS |
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New acquisition: Norelco PA-2A |
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| Oct. 5 |
Gallery of Unusual Postwar Sets and Kits |
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| Oct. 3 |
DuMont RA-102-B3 Club 20 |
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| Oct. 1 |
Diamond Power Water Level Guages - George Lemaster |
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| Sept. 30 |
Crosley 30 inch set |
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DuMont Westminster |
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| Sept. 9 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 added |
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| Sept. 4 |
September online meeting of the Early Television Museum community September 18 at 8:00 PM EST |
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| August 31 |
Direct Pickup Camera Construction Manual (Courtesy of Richard Dean, added to Yanczer website by ETF) |
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| August 25 |
Announcing the 2021 Sweepstakes. Tickets available here |
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| August 24 |
Astoria, Oregon Cable Television |
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August 23, 2021 Monthly Online meeting available now on YouTube |
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| August 23 |
New acquisition: Stewart Warner 9100E |
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| August 22 |
Luc Sirois is selling his extensive collection of mechanical, prewar and postwar TV sets. |
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| August 8 |
August online meeting of the Early Television Museum community August 21 at 8:00 PM EST |
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July meeting of the Early Television Museum community replay now on YouTube |
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| July 28 |
ETF 2020 Federal Income Tax Return |
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| July 12 |
Free TV sets at the Museum |
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| July 10 |
July online meeting of the Early Television Museum community. July 24 at 8:00 PM EST |
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Brisbane, Australia mechanical station 4CM |
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| June 27 |
Bowers TV booster ad |
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| June 26 |
June Monthly ETF Zoom meeting on YouTube |
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| June 11 |
First Televsion in Canada |
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| June 10 |
Sound and Sight Programs Combined in Single Cabinet |
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First Television Show by WRNY Watched by 200 |
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| June 4 |
Correction: Matrix display made by Telefunken-Karolus rather than RCA |
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| May 27 |
Fracarro mechanical kit set |
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Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Fracarro kit set added |
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CKAC Montreal |
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RCA matrix display |
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| May 22 |
W9XK pictures |
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S. U. I. to Broadcast More Detailed Pictures |
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Jenkins Tries Out His "Aerial Eye" |
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| May 14 |
Farnsworth 1939-40 Tour |
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Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 added |
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| May 10 |
Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: 60 line home made set added |
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| May 6 |
W2XCP, Allwood, New Jersey |
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| May 4 |
Television New Transmision Shown |
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Color Television Expected to be Practical Soon |
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| May 1 |
Dage mobile van in Louisiana |
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| Apr 28 |
Scophony Commercial Transmitting and Receiving Equipment |
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Mechanical station CKAC |
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| Apr 27 |
YouTube replay of April Early Television Museum Community Zoom meeting |
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60 Days USA article (day 37) |
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Components of Proved Efficiency - Baird mirror-drum components |
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Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Zenith 43M20 added |
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| Apr 22 |
Eisenhour's TV, Goshen, OH |
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"With Sight", Radio's New Cry - W9XAP article |
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Sanabria "television torpedo plane" |
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Corpus Christi, Texas television demonstration (1932) |
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Mechanical TV in an airplane |
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1928 Australian mechanical TV broadcast |
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| Apr 16 |
Oklahoma Television Tour (1944) |
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Automatic Television Camera to Guide Aerial Weapons |
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| Apr 15 |
Television to Cross Atlantic Aim of Newest Marconi Tests |
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Mirrors Make Color Television Possible - Bell Labs, 1929 |
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| Apr 14 |
1936 Farnwoth prototype test in San Francisco |
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Preparing for Television in the West - 1950 BBC film |
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Radiomarelli prewar sets |
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Many Novelties at Exposition - Bakersfield Californian, Nov. 4, 1932 |
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Scophony Problems - 1937 |
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Portland Farnsworth Demonstration - newspaper articles |
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Farnsworth portable tranmitter |
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Birmingham, Alabama mechanical station (1932) |
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| Apr 8 |
Prelimary list of sets in the June 5 silent auction. |
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| Mar 30 |
RCA 8-PCS41 assembly line |
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The recollections of William E. Keller. |
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Picture of Gray Research Monitor with CBS camera |
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Marshall Fields TV demonstration in Chicago (1939) |
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| Mar 28 |
Ernest Patrick, boy inventor |
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| Mar 26 |
TV in 1955 Cadillac |
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Mechanical TV demonstration by WOKO Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Mar 25 |
General Electric mechanical TV DX |
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Cincinnati, Ohio TV demonstration (Kolster Radio) (1939) |
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Norman, Oklahoma TV demonstration (1939) |
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March 20 Early Television Society Meeting YouTube replay |
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| Mar 24 |
1952 dealer price list - DuMont Royal Sovereign |
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TV Colorgard |
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| Mar 23 |
More from Marshall Wozniak about who sold the first NTSC color set to the public |
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Add-On Converter Turns Your B&W TV into a Color Set |
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Promotional photo of Westinghouse H840CK15 |
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Radio Living-Room of Tomorrow - John Vassos |
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| Mar 22 |
Philco color bar generator advertisement |
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| Mar 20 |
RCA TV demonstration in Boston, Massachusetts (1939) |
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Color Television for Theaters - 1947 |
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| Mar 19 |
Experimental W8XAV television transmitter antenna - 1928 |
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First Television Program Will Be on the Air Tonight in Chicago |
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| Mar 18 |
Georgia Tech Graduate to Install First Television Station in Canada |
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More information on W6XAO's first newscast |
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Magic Viewing Screen at WJBF |
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Sanabria large screen demonstraation at the Boston
Store, Milwaukee |
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Article about W1XAY |
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South African Sets Television Record |
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Packard Bell 1955 color set |
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| Mar 14 |
Recollections of a CRT rebuilder |
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| Mar 12 |
Richmond, Virginia Farnsworth TV demonstration (1940) |
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| Mar 11 |
Portland, Oregon mechanical TV demonstration (1931)
|
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Wendell McMahill mechanical TV demonstrations (1930-1936) |
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| Mar 9 |
6XF Los Angeles mechanical station |
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| Mar 8 |
Announcing - June Swapmeet and Silent Auction |
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| Mar 4 |
Philco 1939 TV demonstration in Pittsburgh |
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Postwar TV DX |
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| Mar 2 |
Mario Bel-Aire custom TV set |
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| Mar 1 |
Newspaper articles about ATI mechanical TV phone |
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| Feb 28 |
YouTube video about W3XWT in Washington, DC |
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| Feb 26 |
TV demonstration in Fort Wayne, Indiana (Farnsworth) (1939) |
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TV set in Fort Collins, Colorado (1939) |
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| Feb 23 |
Outside Broadcasting Van, Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 |
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Meissner set in Oakland, CA |
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Medical color TV in Australia |
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| Feb 21 |
Scanning disk camera from W9XAP |
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| Feb 19 |
Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: RCA 24 line scanning disk set added |
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| Feb 13 |
Articles about Purdue Universty CRT set |
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| Feb 10 |
TV auction in Oregon |
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| Feb 7 |
1950 RCA 16 inch color prototype |
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| Jan 24 |
Sanabria 3 screen set - 1961 |
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| Jan 22 |
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph article about Zworykin CRT receiver |
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W6TFS - amateur television station |
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| Jan 21 |
Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: 2 homemade scanning disk sets added |
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| Jan 20 |
Article about VE9AK Montreal |
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| Jan 17 |
Wendell McMaHill's mechanical television demonstrations |
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| Jan 16 |
More on W7XAO |
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| Jan 15 |
Gypsy Road Trip article about the museum |
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A Summary of Television Transmission and Reception Standards - 1933 |
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| Jan 12 |
Article about W5AGO in Fort Worth |
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Article about Purdue Universty CRT set |
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| Jan 11 |
Early TV Museum Picture Perfect, January 2021 |
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| Jan 10 |
W6XAO television broadcast to a plane |
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V-E day celebration televised by NBC |
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Race to Invent Video Courtesy of Phil Dudley |
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How I Found the Oldest Videotape Courtesy of Phil Dudley |
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| Jan 3 |
1960s RCA film on CRT manufacturing (courtesy of Jonathan LeBlanc) |
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| Jan 2 |
Online Meeting of the Early Television Museum Community. January 16 at 8:00 PM EST. Zoom instructions are here. |
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|
| Jan 1 |
Happy 2021! |
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During 2020, 4 mechanical, 2 prewar and 18 early color sets were added to the databases |
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| Dec 31 |
Ad for Admiral C1617A color set |
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Video of French TV in 1935 |
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1956 BBC TV program describing the history of British TV broadcasting in the first 10 years after the war. |
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| Dec 28 |
More on Who Sold the First NTSC Color Set |
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| Dec 20 |
December Monthly Online Meeting YouTube replay |
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| Dec 16 |
Airline portable ad |
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| Dec 14 |
Press for Admiral bakelite cabinet |
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| Dec 13 |
KTLA remote van - 1955 |
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Demonstration of Sanabria theater television at Eaton's Store in Winnepeg, Canada |
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Radio Amateurs Will Try Television Sets |
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| Dec 6 |
Transvision color TV kit |
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| Dec 5 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Motorola 21CT2 added |
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BBC mechanical TV studio - 1934 |
| |
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| Dec 4 |
Radio-Abteilung Tyrolia (Arnel) mechanical set |
| |
Sentinel IU-816 brochure |
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|
| Dec 2 |
December Online Meeting of the Early Television Museum Community |
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| Nov 28 |
Hilliard Northwest News, November 14, 2001 article about the museum |
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| Nov 23 |
You can watch a replay of the meeting here |
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Western Junior Camera in German newspaper |
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| Nov 19 |
Instructions for joining Saturday's Zoom meeting are here. |
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German TV Using Bulb Arrays |
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| Nov 18 |
Color Televisions Were All The Rage In The 60s. They Were Also Radioactive (Courtesy of Phil Dudley) |
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The story behind the Masters’ first-ever color-TV broadcast (Courtesy of Phil Dudley) |
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| Nov 15 |
Another Raytheon 15 inch color set |
| |
RCA Model 5 on test bench |
| |
Australian mechanical TV broadcasting |
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Color photo of CT-100 components from May, 1954 RE magazine |
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| Nov 14 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA CTC-4 added |
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| Nov 6 |
Announcing! The Early Television Foundation Society: Monthly online meetings |
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Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Raytheon C-21C1-M added |
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| Nov 4 |
KPTV Portland, Oregon remote van |
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| Nov 1 |
DuMont RA-103 operating instructions |
| |
Automatic color TV coil engineering samples |
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| Oct 28 |
Richard Fernandez replica |
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| Oct 22 |
More on RCA Experimental Flat CRT |
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| Oct 14 |
1935 German television |
| |
Dumont color test pattern |
| |
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| Oct 10 |
RCA RC-30 Monochrome CRT Characteristics, RCA RC-30 Color CRT Characteristics |
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Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated; Western 41 added |
| |
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| Sept 26 |
Kwik-Flip remote control |
| |
Philco Predicta Tandem ad |
| |
Philco color bar generator |
| |
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| Sept 21 |
Surviving Prewar Set Database Summary updated: RCA TT-5 added |
| |
National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting |
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| Sept 20 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA Model 5 and Westinghouse H840CK15 added. |
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| Sept 15 |
The 2020 Early Television Museum Sweepstakes Drawing is 15 Days Away! Buy your tickets for the for the 2020 Sweepstakes Here |
| |
Third Annual Facebook Radio Group Pages Vintage Radio Show and Swapmeet |
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| Sept 11 |
Monochrome and Color CRT interchangeability guides |
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| Sept 10 |
TV set in limo |
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| Sept 7 |
TKD mechanical television kit |
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Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated; TKD mechanical television kit added |
| |
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| Sept 6 |
TKD mechanical television kit - ORIGINAL (not replica) for sale |
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| Aug 31 |
1982 resoration of GE HM-225 by Richard Brewster |
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DuMont Multiscanner at Texas Museum of Broadcast and Communications |
| |
Zenith Christmas dealer displays |
| |
RCA TK-41 assembly line |
| |
Cobbs Radio & Television - Portsmouth, NH |
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| Aug 29 |
More on Gene Nicholson |
| |
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| Aug 24 |
Gene Nicholson, RCA television engineer |
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W9XAL camera |
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| Aug 23 |
Auction in Oregon featuring over 300 vintage TV sets and accessories, including Westinghouse H840CK15 - August 30. |
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| Aug 19 |
TV set in a 1955 Cadillac |
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TV set in a Rolls Royce |
| |
1957 Motorola 21CT2M |
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Philco 48-1001 in a drugstore |
| |
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| Aug 12 |
RCA and Transvision television demonstrators |
| |
Western Television Visionette console at the California Historical Radio Society museum |
| |
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| Aug 11 |
Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated. Baird Televisior and Western Television Visionette Console added. |
| |
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| Aug 9 |
Last chance to get 30% more sweepstakes tickets at no additional cost. Use Promo Code ETF. |
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| July 20 |
Photo of Eurovision 819 to 405 line converter |
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| July 17 |
More on W5XA Shreveport,
LA |
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More on W. E. Anthony |
| |
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| July 8 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Raytheon 15 inch prototype added |
| |
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| July 2 |
The 2020 ETF Sweepstakes are Here! |
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| June 28 |
KRSC Remote van |
| |
TV sets in Los Angeles - 1945 |
| |
HRTI student from portugal |
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| May 20 |
John Logie Baird and Baird Television Ltd. - from Peter Scott's site |
| |
Dumont Duoscopic articles |
| |
More on 3-D TV |
| |
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| May 19 |
More on KRSC |
| |
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| May 17 |
More on KRSC |
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| May 8 |
Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Admiral C322C series added |
