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Mechanical Television

Mechanical Broadcast Equipment Gallery

Mechanical Cameras

  • Phototubes
  • John Logie Baird's Original Camera
    • To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables

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1926 Baird camera

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Early Baird camera, on display at the Baird Bar in Edinborough, Scotland

Courtesy of Lee Schaeffer

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WRNY camera, made by Pilot, 1928

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Baird 1928 camera

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KDKA camera, 1928

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1928 camera

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Jenkins Aerial Television Eye (1929)
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General Electric camera (ca 1929)

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Western Junior camera (ca 1930)

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ICA camera/transmitter (ca 1930)

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Direct pickup camera (1930)

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Sliskovic camera and scanner (1930)

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

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Ardenne 60 line flying spot scanner (1931)

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Unidentfied German camera and scanner

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

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Russian flying spot scanner (ca 1930)

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RCA 120 line camera (1931)

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Direct pickup camera in the NHK Museum

Courtesy of Jerome Halphen

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Jenkins 1932 camera

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French direct pickup lens disk camera

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TeKaDe camera and scanner (1934)

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

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Baird Intermediate film camera

 

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Barthelemy (France) 1935 60/120 line camera

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Barthelemy (France) 1935 180/240 line camera

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Barthelemy (France) 1935 240 line film camera

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Peck camera and transmitter (1935)

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ATI camera (1936)

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Don Lee 300 line film camera (1936)

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National School camera (1936)

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Fernseh mechanical film scanner with two projectors

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Telefunken intermediate film camera, using Nipkow disk

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ICA 1939 camera

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Jenkins camera at Coyne Electrical School

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Courtesy of The American Museum of Photography

Direct pickup mechanical camera at Marshall Field department store in Chicago

 

 

Mechanical Transmitters

  • 1929 W3XK transmitter
  • 1931 RCA experimental transmitter
  • 1931 W2XAB transmitter
  • 1932 W5XA transmitter
  • 1932 W9XK transmitter
  • 1933 W6XAH transmitter
    • To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables
  • 1935 VE9AK transmitter
  • 1935 W9XAL transmitter
  • 1936 Eiffel Tower transmitter
  • 1936 W6XAO transmitter
  • 1936 National Schools transmitter
  • 1937 Polish station
    • To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables

Mechanical Studios

  • 1931-39 W2XAB Studios
  • 1932 W9XK Studio
    • To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables
  • 1933 W6XAH Studio
  • 1935 BBC Studio
    • To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables

 


 
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