What's New

Early Television Museum

Changes and Additions to the Site


May 29	Surviving Early Electronic Set database updated: RCA TRK-12 added

Apr 12	California Pacific International Exposition
	More on E1 Volkfernseher
	Pictures of Chromatron

Apr 4	New acquisition: DuMont advertising sign

Mar23	New acquisitions: Farnsworth GV-260 and RCA TLS-86

Mar 10	Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA)

Mar 6	New acquisitions: Admiral C1617, CBS RX-43. Hoffman 15 inch Colorcaster, Philco 15 inch prototype, RCA TLS50, Zenith 43M20

Feb 20	How many RCA CT-100s were made and sold?

Feb 10	A brief history of the Eiffel Tower TV transmitter - by Jerome Halphen

Feb 5	New acquisition: Radiola RA-952

Feb 4	Who sold the first NTSC color set to the public? Research by Marshall Wozniak.

Jan 31	Pictures of AT&T equipment used for testing TV transmission
	Western Electric (Polarad) waveform monitor

Jan 27	CBS color California medical operation televised
	Another surviving RCA TRK-9 from the Newburgh experiment

Jan 26	Register Now for the 2026 Convention

Jan 25	RCA TRK-9 in auction in Orange City, NY

Jan 15	GE GM-295 manual

Jan 11	Leon Theremin - an early television pioneer?

Jan 10, 2026	KWK mechanical scanner

Dec 30	RCA 630-TS prototype misidentfied. It is a Regal 1949 10 inch set.

Dec 27	New acquisition: RCA 630-TS prototype
	Video about KPTV Portland, first commercial UHF station

Dec 2	Telemeter box for Toronto experiment

Dec 1	YouTube interview with the son of the original owner of our RCA TRK-9

Nov 28	Surviving Mechanical Set database updated: ICA Visionette added

Nov 22	1950 Zenith brochure
	Radio Craft 1947 color TV article

Nov 20	RCA CT-100 in China

Nov 19	The museum named an official location on America 250-Ohio Innovation Trail

Nov 17	El Paso, Texas TV demonstration (1936)
	2025 museum improvements
	New acquisition: 1950 Zenith porthole

Nov 15	Television Signals Flow Through a Metal Pipe (1938)

Nov 10	YouTube video of a I've Got a Secret TV show featuring the GE Octagon

Nov 8	New acquistion: Sylvania Halolight

Oct 29	More information on ATC Kinet

Oct 21	Limited quantity of replica backs for RCA 621, 630 and 721 for sale

Oct 20	New acquisition: RCA TP-35B film projector

Oct 10	BBC video of TV sets in London hotel

Sept 29	Kingsley custom postwar set

Sept 22	W6XAO screen shot - 1937

Sept 21	Photos from Harvey Gall - KTLA

Sept 17	WCFL Transmitter

Sept 13	Jenkins direct pickup camera
	Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: CBS 205 added
	W2XCD Passaic, NJ

Sept 5	Color page updated to add information on introduction of color in Britain and Europe, including videos about the history of NTSC, PAL and SECAM

Sept 1	More on the Raytheon 15 inch color set

Aug 30	Hilliard Farmers Market - at the Museum Tuesday, September 9, 4-7 PM

Aug 28	Admiral toy studio

Aug 26	Catalina Island microwave relay (1946)

Aug 24	Philips EL5770 projector

Aug 21	How to Build the S & I Television Receiver

Aug 15	More on Farnsworth-Kemper receiver

Aug 11	GEC BT-3701
	John Logie Baird field sequential system (1947)

Aug 5	Ludwig von Drake signs

Aug 2	KE2XDR - DuMont experimental color station

July 31	First broadcast - W9XZV Chicago
	The Magic of Making Picture Tubes

July 29	James Hawes - How Col-R-Tel Works

July 27	1966 Picturephone prototype
	RCA field sequential prototype (1941)
	Lier Radio and Television Store
	Surviving Color Database Summary updated: Sparton 16A211 added

July 24	First Natioal Television 1933 mailer
	W9IQG amateur TV operator

July 22	YouTube video of a Western Visionette working
	Ohio Magazine article: 5 Reasons to Visit Our 2024-25 Best Hometowns
	New acquisition: RCA TT-5 dealer display

July 20	June, 2025 Newsletter available to all, July newsletter available to members
	July oline meeting of the Early Televisio Museum Community - July 26 at 8 PM EDT
	Fall Swapmeet and Sweepstakes drawing - October 18 10-2 at the museum.
	Transvision FSM ad

July 19	Don Lee 1937 kit - Allied Radio ad
	Baird's early Experiments at Queens Arcade, Hastings 1923 or 24
	Pye demonstration in Australia - 1949

july 13	List of North American radio and TV museums
	TV demonstration - Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyp (1940)
	Texas Broadcast Museum Monthly Mini-Magazine

July 12	Lawrence Technological University TV demonstration (1938)
	Milton Stern mechanical system

July 8	Britain’s first TV set is one of the stars of our collection - Science and Media Museum

July 5	IEEE article: This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once
	New acquisition: Gardner TV Colorgard
	Dumont Duoscopic at the Smithsonian

July 4	Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: 2 - RCA TRK-12s added
	Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Western Visionette added

June 30	Plew Model 2 mechanical scanner

June 29	RCA 1940 Sales Brochure - courtesy of Jim Carlyle, WION Radio, Ionia MI.

June 28	New acquisition: Westinghouse H840CK15 - Canadian version
	New acquisitions: DuMont RA-110-2-A and Zenith H3467R
	1949 RCA 3 tube color camera

June 26	1939 list of American CRTs - table re-creted by Richard Fernandez to make it more readable
	WDAF (Kansas City) mobile production vehicle

June 25	W7BDZ Butte, MT

June 20	Japanese 1937 mobile production vans

June 17	Safar RTD-40 (1939)
	Experimental Television in Malasia (1939)
	Kalman Tihanyi
	Return Beam Vidicon

June 16	Radiomarelli RV-175 (1938)

June 15	Scam alert: Chris Moore
	Robert Neuhauser - History of Lancaster camera tubes

June 13	16 Inch Tube Modernizes 10 Inch Set
	Samuel Curtis Radio-Television Institute (Boston)
	Jaarbeurs Iconoscope (Netherlands, 1938)
	Restoration of an Andrea 2-F-12 cabinet

June 10	Philco 10TK (1939)
	Tour Dupont Circle building being celebrated as ‘the birthplace of television - WTOP Video (courtesy of John Pinckney)

June 8	Television receiver specifications, 1939
	1936 RCA Prototype
	Television From Grammophone Record

June 1	Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: RCA TRK-5 added
	Moscow Television and Radio Center in Shabolovka, 1939
	2025 Convention report
	New acquisition: Garod 15TZ6

May 16	Pye field sequential demonstration (1949)

May 13	The Glass Eye Invasion —Television Sets Invade the Midcentury Home - A New Book by Steve Kosareff

May 12	Our new display: Vintage Video Games
	RCA RR-359 at the NHK Museum

May 10	New Display: Sony Chromatron and JVC TM-L450TU LCCS Video Monitor/Receive r

April 29	New acquisition: Raytheon 7DX22P

April 21	Coin operated TV sets

April 17	Video of a restored HMV 905 prewar set

April 10	Pilot TV-37 advertisements

April 8	New acquisition: General Electric GM-295
	New acquisition: Sylvania Slide Theater

April 4	Motorola color ad
	Motorola B & W ads

April 3	Sony micro-TV

Mar 31	This Retro Television Museum In Ohio Will Transport You Straight To The 1920s

Mar 30	Gernsback binocular TV

Mar 26	Philco prototype binocular TV
	TV Amateur George Palmer Received His Own Color Picture
	George Palmer, TV DX
	1928 Pilot mechanical set (36 lines)
	Video of images from W2XB shows

Mar 15	Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated; General Electric GM-295 added
	Commercial produced by Camille Matheny, Hilliard Bradley HS junior

Mar 12	Television in an airplane - A. J. Carter, WCFL
	Discounts at local Hilliard busineses at the Convention

Mar 10	W1XAV studio - 1931

Mar 9	Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated; General Electric HM-171 added

Mar 4	New acquisition: RCA CTC7 Abington
	Milton Bursma and the Bursma Radio Supply Co.

Mar 1	New acquisiton: RCA CTC-5 Asbury

Feb 26	Television Comes to Japan
	Televison in an airplane - 1964
	CDR rotor control box

Feb 25	Color Television - Its Status Today and a Look Into the Future - courtesy of Paul Garbarczyk
	Sylvania Color Slide Studio
	Coming to the Museum soon - Sony Chromaton KV-7010U and JVC TM-L450TU LCCS Video Monitor/Receiver

Feb 15	1949 Westinghouse commercial video
	W6XAH studio and tower

Feb 11	RCA film chain -1936
	Food trucks for the convention, and information on Saturday dinner

Feb 5	1940 General Electric Worlds Fair brochure

Feb 3	Charlina Johnson, a contributor to our monthly online meeting, lost her home in the Altadena file. Her son has started a GoFundMe account to help her rebuild. Please contribute if you can.

Feb 2	Saving flyback transformers
	Zenith Phonevision in Hartford, CT

Jan 26	More on the ATC Kinet

Jan 22	2025 Convention Information
	Peck mechanical color system - 1935

Jan 19	1930 Western lens disk prototype
	WMAL test of the CTI color system
	Step Inside the Early Television Museum in Hilliard, OH. - Ohio Magazine video
	Prewar broadcasts from J2PQ Tokyo

Jan 14	1954 RCA salesman filmstrip with the CT-100

Jan 11	ATC iconoscope camera

Jan 8	A Major New Museum Acquistion - ATC Kinet

Jan 4, 2025	2025 Convention to be held May 2-4 at the museum in Hilliard