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Early Electronic Television

Build Your Own TV Set

Before World War Two several magazine articles appeared in the U.S. and Britain giving details on building TV receivers. Here are some of them.

American Designs

  • 10 by 8 Inch Television Images
  • Adapting "R & T" Television Receiver for 7" Tube
  • Adding a 3 inch C. R. Tube to the Low Cost Television Receiver
  • Build this Don Lee Television Receiving Set
  • Build Your Own Television Receiver
  • Build Your Own Video-Audio Set
  • Building a Low Cost Television Receiver
  • Building Television Receivers with Standard CRT Tubes
  • Constructing the Don Lee Video Receiver
  • The Construction of Television Receivers
  • Convert This Set to a 9 Inch Screen
  • Deflection and Video Chassis for Television Reception
  • A Design for Living - With Television
  • An Electrostatic-Deflection Kinescope Unit
  • How to Build a 441 T. R. F. Television Receiver
  • Low Cost Experimental Television Receiver
  • Philadelphia Wireless Technical Institute receiver
  • RCA Encourages Amateurs
  • Television Training Institute receiver
  • The R & T Videophone
  • The 10-Tube "R & T" Television Receiver
  • Using Electromagnetic-Deflection Cathode-Ray Tubes
  • Using Your Oscilloscope for Television Reception

British Designs

  • Book of Practical Television receiver
  • Wireless World television receiver
  • Popular Wireless receiver

Modern Replicas

  • HMV 904 replica made by Victor Barker
  • Chauvierre Visiodyne Baby replica made by AndrĂ© Chompret
  • Replicas made by Jack Neitz

 


 
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