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Changes and Additions to the Site

 

Mar 21 More on Master remote control
   
Mar 4 Restoration of the sweepstakes prize
   
Feb 27 More information on the Dynatron Ether Sovereign
   
Feb 9 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added
  22 mechanical, 10 early electronic, and 11 color sets added to our database during 2022
  Philco TA-505 Demonstrator
   
Jan 30 TV camera made by Olavo Bastos Freire
  1936 Baird-Farnsworth Camera
  New York state video network - 1949
  Sanabria-DeForest TV bomb
   
Jan 17 Leo Hruska Biography and Photos
  Max Factor articles on makeup for television
   
Jan 9 Hollis Baird 1931 model receiver
   
Dec 27 More on RCA PT-100 theater projector
   
Dec 15 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: CBS Field Sequential receiver and 3 - General Electric Field Sequential Monitors added
  Mechanical broadcasts by Frances Brott, chief engineer at radio station KOMO
   
Dec 14 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: 18 mechancal sets from the National Museum of American History added
  Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: 8 early electronic sets from the National Museum of American History added
   
Dec 2 Grafton Mirror Drum Receiver
  Vintage Standards Converter
   
Nov 30 Mechanical TV amateur broadcaster Leo Hruska
   
Nov 15 Prewar Westinghouse WRT-700 for sale
   
Nov 10 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Westinghouse WRT-700 added
   
Nov 5 Motorola 21CT2 advertisement
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Homemade 60 line scanning disk set added
   
Nov 1 TV Bank toy
   
Oct 17 New acquisition: Bell Systems Picturphone Mod I
   
Sept 17 General Electric PA color CRT
   
Sept 12 New shipment of good used monochrome CRTs for sale has arrived
   
Sept 10 TradioVision T-18 projection set
   
Sept 6 Moskvich T1 (1946)
   
Sept 5 Fall Swapmeet
  Annual Meeting Minutes, May 8, 2022
   
Sept 2 GE Theater Television
   
Aug 17 Farnsworth during World War Two
  More on BBC television work during World War Two
   
Aug 15 New acquisitions: Western Visionette, Baird T-18C, RCA TRK-12 and RCA CT-100
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added
   
Aug 8 CBS color articles in Time Magazine, November 28, 1949 and Time Magazine, December 4, 1950
   
Aug 2 USTV model T-525L
   
Aug 1 CBS color demonstrated in Ohio
   
July 29 BBC television work during World War Two
   
July 25 W9KNU Mt. Carmel, IL
  Time Magazine, October 1, 1951 article about the Chromatron CRT
   
July 23 Television exhibit at the Golden Gate Exposition
  RGD 371 at Radiolympia
  Flask receiver at the 1939 World's Fair
   
July 22 W3XWT sign-on
   
July 17 More on W6XYZ and KTLA
   
July 15 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added
   
July 11 New acquisition: Muntz 27 inch console model 2764A
   
July 7 Televison in Uruguay
  How RCA's WWII Military Television Development Shaped Modern Warfare
   
July 3 New acquisition: Majestic 120
   
June 26 WNBT program schedule, March 9-15, 1942
  Radio and TV Repair Shop of the 50's
  RCA PT-100 theater projector, ca 1950
   
June 11 2021 ETF Tax Return
  Progress Report on NBC Color Television - 1955 (courtesy of Paul Garbarczyk)
   
June 10 Dage 410-A sync generator schematic
  Print an Arduino-Powered Color Mechanical Television
   
June 9 Polarad TO-1 waveform monitor
   
May 31 W6KKE amateur television
   
May 27 Sets Restored by Volunteers for the Museum
   
May 17 More pictures of Tel-Instrument Co. 2401 monitor
  More pictures of RCA TK-25 prototype film chain
  Museum sets restored by volunteers
  Airmaster postwar american set
   
May 16 More on CT-100 Engineering sample
   
May 15 CT-100 Engineering sample
  B+ booster
  RCA 1954 TV Filmstrip - Courtesy of Matt D'Asaro
   
May 14 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Andrea 2-F-12 and RCA TRK-5 added
   
May 13 New acquisition: RCA TK-25 prototype film chain
   
May 5 New acquisions: Zenith Christmas dealer displays
   
May 3 Tel-Instrument Co. 2401 monitor
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated:Tel-Instrument 2401 monitor added
   
May 2 Nick Williams CRT rebuilding progress report
   
Apr 30 Westinghouse H22T155 operating manual
   
April 29 Mechanical station W8KVD in Columbus, Ohio
   
April 19 New acquisition: Ampex VR-660 VTR
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added
   
April 12 Mechanical TV demonstration at the Iowa State Fair (1931)
   
April 10 New aquisition: Silvertone 7270, donated to the museum by John Folsom
   
Aoril 8 W9XD Milwaukee
  General Electric HM-185 on Display in Portland, Oregon
  Obituary of Bob Degrass, Inventor of Colordaptor
   
Mar 26 Pioneer mechanical scanner advertisement
   
Mar 25 General Electric Talaria
  Television set production - 1950
  RCA Tube Handbook HB3
   
Mar 19 Western Television 1930 Lens Disk prototype
   
Mar 7 Television Image Reaches Africa
  Television, FDR and the 1940 Presidential Conventions
   
Mar 2 Presenters announced for the Early Television Convention
  Swenson's to provide food truck for Friday evening at the Convention
  Newark, New Jersey TV demonstration (1928)
   
Feb 28 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Marconi 709 added
   
Feb 26 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Hartman Model 24 added
  Hartman Model 24
   
Feb 25 More on Re-Nu Radio and Television College
  Ampex CC324 advertisement
   
Feb 18 Help get our display sets working again
   
Feb 17 Nearby motels for the Convention
  Creating a Home TV Transmitter
   
Feb 16 Baird and Farnsworth - site describing Baird's use of the image dissector in the BBC television trials in 1935
  The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
   
Feb 13 W6VSV, amateur telecaster
  W6XAO transmitter site with swimming pool
   
Feb 8 Another Hollywood Radio & TV Institute membership card
  Hybridge TV kits
  Ray-Lectron coil kit
   
Feb 5 Archonian Club of Indianapolis TV demonstration
  1937 Harry Lubke 5 inch kit TV set
  Delta, Colorado TV demonstration (1938)
  Sams PF Reporter 1951 CRT substitution Chard
  Window display for USTV T-530
   
Feb 3 Indianapolis Y.M.C.A. television station
  Indianapolis prewar TV demonstrations
   
Feb 1 Registration now open for the 2022 Early Television Convention
   
Jan 30 Sanabria demonstration at W. H. Block, and Indianapolis, Indiana State Fair
   
Jan 22 Purdue University picture synchronization method
   
Jan 20 Webster-Chicago "Slave" color converter
  Edinburg Inventor Takes Rap at Critics
  1968 NBI magazine article about East German experimental color studio
  Admiral C322C series brochure
  A Special Offer for RCA Employees - upgrade your 630-TS to 12 inch CRT
   
Jan 19 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Admiral C322C series added
   
Jan 8 New acquisition: Diamond Power STV-4 vidicon camera
  New acquisition: Ampex CC-324 vidicon camera
   
Jan 6 Murphy A56V, Murphy A42V, GEC BT-3701, Pye 815 and 1939 Philips projection set advertisements
  More on East German PTT modified NTSC monitor
   
Jan 5, 2022 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: East German PTT modified NTSC monitor
  East German PTT modified NTSC monitor
  Summary of mechanical, early electronic, and color sets added 2005-2021
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Western 41 and an unidentified set added
   
Dec 26 Ad for Burndept prewar set
  Jean Harlow with an unidentified mechanical set
   
Dec. 13 Goncam 1952 cameras
   
Dec. 10 Baird and the Farnsworth image dissector
   
Dec. 6 COARA Holiday Party
   
Dec. 5 Surviving early electronic set database summary updated: General Electric HM-171 added
   
Nov. 28 Lease a HMV 900
  Science and Media Museum article about Scophony - March 21, 2014
  Television Development Committee brochure
  Portland, Oregon's first TV set
   
Nov. 14 Set previously identified as Gilfillan G12 is actually a RCA TRK-120
   
Nov. 12 November online meeting of the Early Television Museum community. November 20 at 8:00 PM EST
   
Nov. 11 New acquisition: RCA TRK-120
  New acquisition: RCA 630PCS
  New acquisition: Norelco PA-2A
   
Oct. 5 Gallery of Unusual Postwar Sets and Kits
   
Oct. 3 DuMont RA-102-B3 Club 20
   
Oct. 1 Diamond Power Water Level Guages - George Lemaster
   
Sept. 30 Crosley 30 inch set
  DuMont Westminster
   
Sept. 9 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 added
   
Sept. 4 September online meeting of the Early Television Museum community September 18 at 8:00 PM EST
   
August 31 Direct Pickup Camera Construction Manual (Courtesy of Richard Dean, added to Yanczer website by ETF)
   
August 25 Announcing the 2021 Sweepstakes. Tickets available here
   
August 24 Astoria, Oregon Cable Television
  August 23, 2021 Monthly Online meeting available now on YouTube
   
August 23 New acquisition: Stewart Warner 9100E
   
August 22 Luc Sirois is selling his extensive collection of mechanical, prewar and postwar TV sets.
   
August 8 August online meeting of the Early Television Museum community August 21 at 8:00 PM EST
  July meeting of the Early Television Museum community replay now on YouTube
   
July 28 ETF 2020 Federal Income Tax Return
   
July 12 Free TV sets at the Museum
   
July 10 July online meeting of the Early Television Museum community. July 24 at 8:00 PM EST
  Brisbane, Australia mechanical station 4CM
   
June 27 Bowers TV booster ad
   
June 26 June Monthly ETF Zoom meeting on YouTube
   
June 11 First Televsion in Canada
   
June 10 Sound and Sight Programs Combined in Single Cabinet
  First Television Show by WRNY Watched by 200
   
June 4 Correction: Matrix display made by Telefunken-Karolus rather than RCA
   
May 27 Fracarro mechanical kit set
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Fracarro kit set added
  CKAC Montreal
  RCA matrix display
   
May 22 W9XK pictures
  S. U. I. to Broadcast More Detailed Pictures
  Jenkins Tries Out His "Aerial Eye"
   
May 14 Farnsworth 1939-40 Tour
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 added
   
May 10 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: 60 line home made set added
   
May 6 W2XCP, Allwood, New Jersey
   
May 4 Television New Transmision Shown
  Color Television Expected to be Practical Soon
   
May 1 Dage mobile van in Louisiana
   
Apr 28 Scophony Commercial Transmitting and Receiving Equipment
  Mechanical station CKAC
   
Apr 27 YouTube replay of April Early Television Museum Community Zoom meeting
  60 Days USA article (day 37)
  Components of Proved Efficiency - Baird mirror-drum components
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Zenith 43M20 added
   
Apr 22 Eisenhour's TV, Goshen, OH
  "With Sight", Radio's New Cry - W9XAP article
  Sanabria "television torpedo plane"
  Corpus Christi, Texas television demonstration (1932)
  Mechanical TV in an airplane
  1928 Australian mechanical TV broadcast
   
Apr 16 Oklahoma Television Tour (1944)
  Automatic Television Camera to Guide Aerial Weapons
   
Apr 15 Television to Cross Atlantic Aim of Newest Marconi Tests
  Mirrors Make Color Television Possible - Bell Labs, 1929
   
Apr 14 1936 Farnwoth prototype test in San Francisco
  Preparing for Television in the West - 1950 BBC film
  Radiomarelli prewar sets
  Many Novelties at Exposition - Bakersfield Californian, Nov. 4, 1932
  Scophony Problems - 1937
  Portland Farnsworth Demonstration - newspaper articles
  Farnsworth portable tranmitter
  Birmingham, Alabama mechanical station (1932)
   
Apr 8 Prelimary list of sets in the June 5 silent auction.
   
Mar 30 RCA 8-PCS41 assembly line
  The recollections of William E. Keller.
  Picture of Gray Research Monitor with CBS camera
  Marshall Fields TV demonstration in Chicago (1939)
   
Mar 28 Ernest Patrick, boy inventor
   
Mar 26 TV in 1955 Cadillac
  Mechanical TV demonstration by WOKO Poughkeepsie, New York
   
Mar 25 General Electric mechanical TV DX
  Cincinnati, Ohio TV demonstration (Kolster Radio) (1939)
  Norman, Oklahoma TV demonstration (1939)
  March 20 Early Television Society Meeting YouTube replay
   
Mar 24 1952 dealer price list - DuMont Royal Sovereign
  TV Colorgard
   
Mar 23 More from Marshall Wozniak about who sold the first NTSC color set to the public
  Add-On Converter Turns Your B&W TV into a Color Set
  Promotional photo of Westinghouse H840CK15
  Radio Living-Room of Tomorrow - John Vassos
   
Mar 22 Philco color bar generator advertisement
   
Mar 20 RCA TV demonstration in Boston, Massachusetts (1939)
  Color Television for Theaters - 1947
   
Mar 19 Experimental W8XAV television transmitter antenna - 1928
  First Television Program Will Be on the Air Tonight in Chicago
   
Mar 18 Georgia Tech Graduate to Install First Television Station in Canada
  More information on W6XAO's first newscast
  Magic Viewing Screen at WJBF
  Sanabria large screen demonstraation at the Boston Store, Milwaukee
  Article about W1XAY
  South African Sets Television Record
  Packard Bell 1955 color set
   
Mar 14 Recollections of a CRT rebuilder
   
Mar 12 Richmond, Virginia Farnsworth TV demonstration (1940)
   
Mar 11 Portland, Oregon mechanical TV demonstration (1931)
  Wendell McMahill mechanical TV demonstrations (1930-1936)
   
Mar 9 6XF Los Angeles mechanical station
   
Mar 4 Philco 1939 TV demonstration in Pittsburgh
  Postwar TV DX
   
Mar 2 Mario Bel-Aire custom TV set
   
Mar 1 Newspaper articles about ATI mechanical TV phone
   
Feb 28 YouTube video about W3XWT in Washington, DC
   
Feb 26 TV demonstration in Fort Wayne, Indiana (Farnsworth) (1939)
  TV set in Fort Collins, Colorado (1939)
   
Feb 23 Outside Broadcasting Van, Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956
  Meissner set in Oakland, CA
  Medical color TV in Australia
   
Feb 21 Scanning disk camera from W9XAP
   
Feb 19 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: RCA 24 line scanning disk set added
   
Feb 13 Articles about Purdue Universty CRT set
   
Feb 10 TV auction in Oregon
   
Feb 7 1950 RCA 16 inch color prototype
   
Jan 24 Sanabria 3 screen set - 1961
   
Jan 22 Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph article about Zworykin CRT receiver
  W6TFS - amateur television station
   
Jan 21 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: 2 homemade scanning disk sets added
   
Jan 20 Article about VE9AK Montreal
   
Jan 17 Wendell McMaHill's mechanical television demonstrations
   
Jan 16 More on W7XAO
   
Jan 15 Gypsy Road Trip article about the museum
  A Summary of Television Transmission and Reception Standards - 1933
   
Jan 12 Article about W5AGO in Fort Worth
  Article about Purdue Universty CRT set
   
Jan 11 Early TV Museum Picture Perfect, January 2021
   
Jan 10 W6XAO television broadcast to a plane
  V-E day celebration televised by NBC
  Race to Invent Video Courtesy of Phil Dudley
  How I Found the Oldest Videotape Courtesy of Phil Dudley
   
Jan 3 1960s RCA film on CRT manufacturing (courtesy of Jonathan LeBlanc)
   
Jan 2 Online Meeting of the Early Television Museum Community. January 16 at 8:00 PM EST. Zoom instructions are here.
   
Jan 1 Happy 2021!
  During 2020, 4 mechanical, 2 prewar and 18 early color sets were added to the databases
   
Dec 31 Ad for Admiral C1617A color set
  Video of French TV in 1935
  1956 BBC TV program describing the history of British TV broadcasting in the first 10 years after the war.
   
Dec 28 More on Who Sold the First NTSC Color Set
   
Dec 20 December Monthly Online Meeting YouTube replay
   
Dec 16 Airline portable ad
   
Dec 14 Press for Admiral bakelite cabinet
   
Dec 13 KTLA remote van - 1955
  Demonstration of Sanabria theater television at Eaton's Store in Winnepeg, Canada
  Radio Amateurs Will Try Television Sets
   
Dec 6 Transvision color TV kit
   
Dec 5 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Motorola 21CT2 added
  BBC mechanical TV studio - 1934
   
Dec 4 Radio-Abteilung Tyrolia (Arnel) mechanical set
  Sentinel IU-816 brochure
   
Dec 2 December Online Meeting of the Early Television Museum Community
   
Nov 28 Hilliard Northwest News, November 14, 2001 article about the museum
   
Nov 23 You can watch a replay of the meeting here
  Western Junior Camera in German newspaper
   
Nov 19 Instructions for joining Saturday's Zoom meeting are here.
  German TV Using Bulb Arrays
   
Nov 18 Color Televisions Were All The Rage In The 60s. They Were Also Radioactive (Courtesy of Phil Dudley)
  The story behind the Masters’ first-ever color-TV broadcast (Courtesy of Phil Dudley)
   
Nov 15 Another Raytheon 15 inch color set
  RCA Model 5 on test bench
  Australian mechanical TV broadcasting
  Color photo of CT-100 components from May, 1954 RE magazine
   
Nov 14 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA CTC-4 added
   
Nov 6 Announcing! The Early Television Foundation Society: Monthly online meetings
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Raytheon C-21C1-M added
   
Nov 4 KPTV Portland, Oregon remote van
   
Nov 1 DuMont RA-103 operating instructions
  Automatic color TV coil engineering samples
   
Oct 28 Richard Fernandez replica
   
Oct 22 More on RCA Experimental Flat CRT
   
Oct 14 1935 German television
  Dumont color test pattern
   
Oct 10 RCA RC-30 Monochrome CRT Characteristics, RCA RC-30 Color CRT Characteristics
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated; Western 41 added
   
Sept 26 Kwik-Flip remote control
  Philco Predicta Tandem ad
  Philco color bar generator
   
Sept 21 Surviving Prewar Set Database Summary updated: RCA TT-5 added
  National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting
   
Sept 20

Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA Model 5 and Westinghouse H840CK15 added.

   
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
   
Sept 11 Monochrome and Color CRT interchangeability guides
   
Sept 10 TV set in limo
   
Sept 7 TKD mechanical television kit
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated; TKD mechanical television kit added
   
Sept 6 TKD mechanical television kit - ORIGINAL (not replica) for sale
   
Aug 31 1982 resoration of GE HM-225 by Richard Brewster
  DuMont Multiscanner at Texas Museum of Broadcast and Communications
  Zenith Christmas dealer displays
  RCA TK-41 assembly line
  Cobbs Radio & Television - Portsmouth, NH
   
Aug 29 More on Gene Nicholson
   
Aug 24 Gene Nicholson, RCA television engineer
  W9XAL camera
   
Aug 23 Auction in Oregon featuring over 300 vintage TV sets and accessories, including Westinghouse H840CK15 - August 30.
   
Aug 19 TV set in a 1955 Cadillac
  TV set in a Rolls Royce
  1957 Motorola 21CT2M
  Philco 48-1001 in a drugstore
   
Aug 12 RCA and Transvision television demonstrators
  Western Television Visionette console at the California Historical Radio Society museum
   
Aug 11 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated. Baird Televisior and Western Television Visionette Console added.
   
Aug 9 Last chance to get 30% more sweepstakes tickets at no additional cost. Use Promo Code ETF.
   
July 20 Photo of Eurovision 819 to 405 line converter
   
July 17 More on W5XA Shreveport, LA
  More on W. E. Anthony
   
July 8 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Raytheon 15 inch prototype added
   
July 2 The 2020 ETF Sweepstakes are Here!
   
June 28 KRSC Remote van
  TV sets in Los Angeles - 1945
  HRTI student from portugal
   
May 20 John Logie Baird and Baird Television Ltd. - from Peter Scott's site
  Dumont Duoscopic articles
  More on 3-D TV
   
May 19 More on KRSC
   
May 17 More on KRSC
   
May 8 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Admiral C322C series added

 

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