Changes and Additions to the Site

Early Television Museum

Changes and Additions to the Site

Sept 28	Our parking lot has now been repaved!

Sept 12	John Logie Baird's Original Camera

Sept 9	Tune in to early TV transmission in Queensland, Australia

Sept 1	The Coolest Hidden Wonder in Ohio

Aug 18	Direct pickup mechanical camera at Marshall Field department store in Chicago

Aug 12	Our Town - TV talk - The Gazette (Montreal), March 24, 1966

Aug 11	Bill Parker's scanning disk replica

July 30	Sylvania CRT Data Sheets

July 19	Merit Transformer Cross Reference (courtesy of Kurt Lofback)
	Video about the museum from Ham On The Air with KD2REU
	Kenjiro Takayanagi - 1926 CRT receiver

July 8	People look at a TV sets in a Mitsukoshi department store (1940)
	This Ohio museum shows that TV is older than you might think (AP article)

July 4	Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Jenkins 100 added

June 27	Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Jenkins Prismatic Drum Scanner added
	Jenkins Prismatic drum scanner

June 20	Mechanical TV demonstration - Columbus, Ohio (1933)

June 17	More on the Lucitron flat panel display
	Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added

June 16	History of Swiss Cable TV

June 12	New acquisition: Jenkins Prismatic Disk

June 4	Chelsea Amateur Radio "Swap 'n Shop" and Electonics Fair - Sunday, June 4

June 1	Article about CBS RX-41 color adaptor

May 25	Article in the New Yorker about the Ansley set we recently acquired (courtey of Dave Sica)

May 17	America's First Television Tour - courtesy of Ken Patrick

May 14	New acquisition: Ansley projection set

May 11	New acquisitions: Lucitron flat screen prototype and EMI Type 6 vidicon camera

Apr 22	W2XWV 1944 promotional brochure

Apr 19	Mullard 1954 color prototype

Apr 13	W8TYY, amateur television broadcaster

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

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