Mechanical Broadcast Equipment Gallery

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Early Broadcast Equipment

Mechanical Broadcast Equipment Gallery

Mechanical Cameras

Phototubes

Early Television

1926 Baird camera

Early Television

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

Courtesy of Lee Schaeffer

Early Television

WRNY camera, made by Pilot, 1928

Early Television

Baird 1928 camera

Early Television

KDKA camera, 1928

Early Television

1928 camera

Early Television

Jenkins Aerial Television Eye (1929)

Early Television

General Electric camera (ca 1929)

Early Television

Western Junior camera (ca 1930)

Early Television

ICA camera/transmitter (ca 1930)

Early Television

Direct pickup camera (1930)

Early Television

Sliskovic camera and scanner (1930)

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

Early Television

Ardenne 60 line flying spot scanner (1931)

Unidentfied German camera and scanner

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

Early Television

Russian flying spot scanner (ca 1930)

Early Television

RCA 120 line camera (1931)

Early Television

Direct pickup camera in the NHK Museum

Courtesy of Jerome Halphen

Early Television

Jenkins 1932 camera

Early Television

French direct pickup lens disk camera

Early Television

TeKaDe camera and scanner (1934)

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

Early Television

Baird Intermediate film camera

Early Television

Barthelemy (France) 1935 60/120 line camera

Early Television

Barthelemy (France) 1935 180/240 line camera

Early Television

Barthelemy (France) 1935 240 line film camera

Early Television

Peck camera and transmitter (1935)

Early Television

ATI camera (1936)

Early Television

Don Lee 300 line film camera (1936)

Early Television

National School camera (1936)

Early Television

Fernseh mechanical film scanner with two projectors

Early Television

Telefunken intermediate film camera, using Nipkow disk

Early Television

ICA 1939 camera

Mechanical Transmitters

1929 W3XK Transmitter	1935 VE9AK Transmitter
1931 RCA Experimental Transmitter	1935 W9XAL Transmitter
1931 W2XAB Transmitter	1936 Eiffel Tower Transmitter
1932 W5XA Transmitter	1936 W6XAO Transmitter
1932 W9XK Transmitter	1936 National Schools Transmitter
1933 W6XAH Transmitter

Mechanical Studios

1931-39 W2XAB Studios	1933 W6XAH Studio
1932 W9XK Studio	1935 BBC Studio

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