| Jan 19 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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Television Firsts Surround the Crowning of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 |
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| Jan 18 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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Alexandra Palace tower under construction |
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| Jan 15 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Jan 14 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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Electronics Article - April, 1954, about Dage portable sync generator (courtesy of George Lemaster) |
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| Jan 12 |
Prewar Database Summary updated: Meissner 10-1153 kit in cabinet added |
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Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Jan 11 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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Telicon magazine article |
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| Jan 10 |
Thanks to all who donated to our end of year campaign. $3,140 was donated, which will be matched to generate $6,280 in income to the museum. We also added 30 new members, for a total of 121 |
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| Jan 8 |
Blab-Off |
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| Jan 5 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Jan 3 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Jan 1, 2019 |
Happy New Year! |
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Added to our databases in 2018: 12 mechanical, 4 prewar, and 16 color |
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| Dec 30 |
Televising from Helicopters and Airplanes |
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| Dec 29 |
KING-TV remote programming |
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| Dec 28 |
Donate to the museum before January 1 and your contribution will be matched dollar for dollar |
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Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Dec 26 |
Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Jenkins prismatic scanner added |
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| Dec 23 |
A (Short) Broadcast History of the Tournament of Roses Parade - article by Richard Wirth |
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| Dec 22 |
Speculation on the scanning frequencies of the Diamond Image Dissector Camera |
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| Dec 20 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Dec 15 |
Prewar Database Summary updated: Marconi 705 added |
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Audio clip announcing a TV show on WNBT from 1944 (courtesy of John Pinckney) |
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| Dec 10 |
Report on the status of CRT rebuilding at the museum |
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| Dec 9 |
Re-attaching the base to a CRT |
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| Dec 6 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Dec 1 |
Progress on Diamond Image Dissector Camera restoration |
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| Nov 27 |
WDTV, DuMont Network and The 1948 FCC “Freeze” |
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| Nov 25 |
Time to renew your museum membership for 2019 |
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| Nov 24 |
Prewar Cossor 54 for sale ad posted previously is a scam |
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Restoration started on Diamond Power Co. Image Dissector camera |
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| Nov 19 |
New acquisition: Philco 50-T-1477 |
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| Nov 18 |
Western Visionette console model |
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| Nov 16 |
Museum Videos by Arland Communications |
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| Nov 13 |
Telefunken RFB/T2. First rectangular CRT (1938). |
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| Nov 12 |
Good used 10BP4s and Predicta CRTs for sale |
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| Nov 11 |
Mechanical Database Summary updated: Hollis Baird model 25/35 receiver added |
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| Nov 10 |
YouTube videos of Richard Diehl's work with image dissector camera tubes |
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| Nov 4 |
W6XYZ and KTLA photos from Don Kent |
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| Nov 2 |
Barry Bennett's update on TK-41 restoration |
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Television’s On Screen Graphics, new article by Richard Wirth |
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| Oct 31 |
Diamond Power model 300 tecnical papers, schematic diagrams |
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| Oct 29 |
Diamond Power model 300 Utilitscope camera |
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| Oct 28 |
More pictures of the Farnsworth postwar prototype |
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| Oct 22 |
Russian Iconoscope camera |
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Russian flying spot scanner |
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| Oct 21 |
German prewar database summary updated |
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Russian commutator type scanner |
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| Oct 17 |
Articles found by Marshall Wozniak about the Raytheon 15 inch color set |
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British Television by Wire - early cable TV in England |
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| Oct 15 |
Who sold the first NTSC color set page revised |
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| Oct 14 |
Mechanical Database Summary updated: Home made scanning disk televisor added |
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| Oct 6 |
Gerolf
Poetschk's site (German mechanical and prewar) added |
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British, German and European mechanical database updated |
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| Oct 2 |
New contender for first NTSC color set sold to the public: Philharmonic. |
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Convention dates corrected: May 3 - 5, not May 4-6 |
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| Oct 1 |
New classified ad section: Restoration and Technical Information |
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| Sept 30 |
Color Database Summary updated: CBS 205 added |
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| Sept 28 |
Watching Remote Baseball Games Live Before Television - article by Mark Schubin |
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| Sept 26 |
Diamond ST-2 vidicon camera |
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Bell Labs mirror screws |
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| Sept 25 |
Complete Jenkins Instruction Book - assembly of the JK-20 receiver kit |
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| Sept 24 |
Mechanical Database Summary updated: GE Octagon, Hollis Baird RK-1 and R-400, Western Visionette added |
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| Sept 22 |
ETF Board of Directors meeting minutes - August 13, 2018 |
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| Sept 18 |
ATI Curriculum for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Television Engineering |
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| Sept 17 |
Jenkins Instruction Book |
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| Sept 16 |
Pye 838 |
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BBC 1939 audience survery letter |
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Jenkins JK-20 |
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| Sept 7 |
Reminder - Fall Swapmeet is Tomorrow |
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| Sept 6 |
Ad for Westinghouse 19 inch color set in the Pittsburgh Press |
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Surviving Early Color Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added |
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| Sept 2 |
General Electric wired remote |
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| Aug 30 |
Mysteries at the Museum features the Early Television Museum |
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| Aug 29 |
Color TV in Milwaukee - 1954 |
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Television in Milwaukee |
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| Aug 26 |
Mechanical Database Summary updated: Jenkins 100 added |
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| Aug 25 |
Audio clip of Franklin Roosevelt from 1944, in which he mentions television |
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| Aug 23 |
Our parking lot has been repaired |
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| Aug 14 |
Peter Scott's Emitron web pages |
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Peter Scott's Prewar Television web pages |
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Peter Scott's 1936 Olympics web pages |
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| Aug 12 |
CBS and New York’s Grand Central Terminal - an article by Richard Wirth |
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General Electric Single Tube Color Camera |
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| Aug 11 |
Motion Pictures by Ether Waves - 1925 article |
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| Aug 10 |
ETF Annual Meeting minutes, May 6, 2018 |
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| Aug 8 |
RCA TRK-12 for sale in Classifieds |
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More information on our Motorola 16CK1 |
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Details for September 8 Fall Swapmeet |
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| Aug 5 |
Museum audio tours |
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| Aug 3 |
NTSC color work at the CBS color studio (courtesy of Wayne Bretl) |
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Color Database Summary updated: Sylvania 451 added |
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| Aug 2 |
Fall Swapmeet with be September 8. Details to follow. |
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New acquisition: Motorola 16CK1 |
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Color Database Summary updated: Motorola 16CK1, Motorola 19CK2 and Westinghouse 890CKU19 added. |
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| July 30 |
New acquisition: Diamond Power 400 Utiliview camera |
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| July 26 |
German Tonne WW2 guided missle camera |
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German miniature "super iconoscope" camera tube
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| July 23 |
Sears, Brooklyn CBS color TV demonstration (July 1951) |
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Documents relating to my Paul Steen, instructor at the American Radio Institute in 1951 |
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| July 22 |
New acquistion: Raytheon-Belmont 7DX22-P |
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| July 19 |
Article in Atlas Obscura, July 11, 2018 |
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| June 29 |
Carlos Alberto Fazano has just published a book titled "The Thermionic Age in Brazil. A Historical overview on valves and kinescopes." |
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ATSC 3.0 Engineering Conference reception at the museum. |
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| June 21 |
New acquisition: Drug store tube tester |
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Image from a monoscope from California that was donated to the museum. |
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| June 18 |
First U.S. TV
set for sale to the public before World War Two |
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Scophony Theater Television |
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Scophony Television Plans |
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Scophony Video System Explained to FCC |
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Television Signals Flow throught a Metal Pipe |
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Energy Flows Through a Pipe |
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Visual Receivers Pushed in London |
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Television Receivers Abroad |
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Television Activity is Spurred as Paramount Acquires Rights |
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Farnsworth Shows Visual Equipment |
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| June 9 |
Many thanks to Ken Ellis of Columbus for his work in cleaning up the mess outside the museum. He spent many hours picking up, bagging and putting stuff on the trailer to be hauled away. |
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| May 21 |
Surviving Color Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added |
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| May 16 |
Surviving Prewar Database Summary updated: RCA TRK-120 added |
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| May 15 |
WBNS-TV Out of Bounds segment about the Early Television Museum |
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| May 11 |
Articles and items relating to Farnsworth from Phil Savenik |
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WHIO-TV, Dayton, Ohio |
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| May 10 |
Resolution charts and test patterns |
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| May 9 |
2018 Convention report and photos |
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Dan Jones' Philco Predicta workshop at the 2018 Convention |
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CBS sign |
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LongWeekends article |
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| May 4 |
New acquision: Raytheon 15 inch color prototype |
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| May 3 |
Estate Planning for Television Collectors |
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| May 1 |
Surviving Color Database Summary updated: Raytheon prototype 15" added |
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Home Television Magnetic-Tape Player |
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| Apr 27 |
New acquisition: 6 foot tall RCA Nipper |
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| April 21 |
New acquisition: Channel Master antenna rotor display |
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| Apr 15 |
Revised list of surviving RCA CT-100s |
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| Apr 5 |
New Shape for Color TV Tubes - 25 inch Rectangular (courtesy of Tom Kredatus) |
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| Mar 31 |
RCA 30 KW UHF transmitter |
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| Mar 28 |
Index of books and magazines, pamplets, etc.. now online |
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| Mar 24 |
More information on Jenkins mechanical sets |
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Mechanical Database Summary updated: Jenkins 202 and JD-30 added |
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| Mar 22 |
Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added |
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| Mar 19 |
Color picture tube interchangeablity guide |
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| Mar 15 |
Mechanical Database Summary updated: Plew 1934 scanning disk added |
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| Mar 9 |
New acquisition: Scott 6T11 |
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| Mar 8 |
Camera Cranes from the Beginning |
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| Mar 7 |
Theater Television on the Rise - Televiser Monthly article |
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DuMont TA-107 sync generator |
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General Electric 1948 equipment |
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A. T. & T, Announces New Television Network Expansion - 1948 Televisor Monthly article |
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CBS Plans - 1948 Televisor Monthly article |
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National Conventions have TV Broadcasters Pooling Resources - 1948 Televisor Monthly article |
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WPTZ Trying Out Varied Programming Ideas - 1948 Televisor Monthly article |
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WPIX New York |
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Television Receiver Distribution - 1948 Televisor Monthly article |
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| Mar 5 |
Documents related to programming and operations at WBKB - 1945 to1948 |
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AMA Television Handbook - WBKB 1947 |
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Audience surveys - WBKB 1947 and 1948 |
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The Pulse of New York Television - 1948 audience survey |
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Continuity of Action in the Televising of Baseball Games - 1948 |
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Television Remote Operations - 1948 |
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Los Angeles advertising rate cards - 1950 |
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| Mar 4 |
Television show scripts from WBKB Chicago - 1946 |
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| Mar 3 |
Television show scripts from WBKB Chicago - 1944 and 1945 |
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Morton Tuller, early television pioneer at WBKB Chicago |
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| Mar 2 |
Denis Asseman's Telehor replica |
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| Feb 27 |
Updated list of RCA 21-CT-55 (CTC-2B) serial numbers from Pete Deksnis |
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| Feb 26 |
Washington, DC area programs in CBS color |
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| Feb 23 |
Color Database Summary updated: Sylvania 31T series, RCA 21-CT-55 and CTC-4 added |
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| Feb 22 |
Early Television Museum featured on Mysteries at the Museum on the Travel Channel tonight at 9 EST |
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| Feb 21 |
Color Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 modified for 625 line NTSC experiments in Switzerland. |
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| Feb 19 |
Color Database Summary updated: RCA TM-21 monitor added |
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| Feb 18 |
Picture Generator for Color Television - August 1951 Electronics magazine article |
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| Feb 17 |
Color Database Summary updated: RCA 21-CT-55 added |
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| Feb 15 |
Mechanical Database Summary updated: Hollis-Baird C-3-S receiver added |
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| Feb 9 |
Sentinel SelectaVision Coin Operated TV Set |
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| Jan 30 |
Douglas 1953 Remote Control TV Set |
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Items now being accepted for the 2018 convention live auction |
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| Jan 25 |
You can now register for the 2018 convention |
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| Jan 23 |
Color Database Summary updated: CBS 205, Col-R-Tel, Motorola 19CT1 added |
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Clio article about the museum by Steven Straley |
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RCA Spherical Iconoscope (ca 1934) |
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| Jan 18 |
Society of Broadcast Engineers Chapter 52 Bulletins |
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| Jan 16 |
Ohio Magazine article, January 2018 |
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| Jan 15 |
Ohio Group Travel Guide - 2018 |
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| Jan 13 |
Histoire de la télévision - André Lange's new site (in French) |
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| Jan 12 |
November 16, 2017 Early Television Foundation Board Meeting minutes |
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| Jan 10 |
Vee D X antenna rotor |
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| Jan 7 |
Hickok 760 Video Scanner |
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| Jan 2, 2018 |
Happy New Year! |
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During 2017, we added 9 mechanical, 4 prewar, and 11 early color sets to our databases |
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