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Museum Hours:

Saturday 10-6

Sunday 12-5

Field Sequential Prototypes

Modern Replicas of Early Color Sets

Receivers and Monitors

Air King

7 inch 9 inch Console 1941 CBS prototypes
1946 CBS Prototype	1946 GE Prototype
1949 monitor used in the Smith, Kline & French medical television system	1949 Zenith made for the Smith, Kline & French medical television system
Zenith receiver, made for CBS broadcasts	CBS RX-43 (1949)
DuMont 12 1/2 inch industrial monitor (1950)	DuMont industrial monitor as a receiver Courtesy of Steve Dichter
DuMont 7 inch industrial monitor (1950)	Gray Research 1101 (1950) studio monitor
CBS 12CC2 (1951). The image on the screen was generated by the color bar generator made by the museum.  Courtesy of Ed Reitan	10" CBS “Slave”/”Companion” (1951). Schematic (Permission to use photo from Ed Reitan)
Industrial Color Television Monitor Console (1950)	October, 1951 Radio Electronics Courtesy of Steve Dichter
Drum receiver for the CBS field sequential system. The unit looks too crude to be a CBS prototype.
September, 1951 TV Technician magazine CBS drum receiver, using 17 inch rectangular CRT, was demonstrated in December of 1950. The entire receiver was 34 inches high and 27 inches wide. The compactness of the receiver was accomplished by placing the CRT inside the drum. Here is a New York Times article, courtesy of Phil Dudley.

Converters

These devices converted black and white TV sets to display color pictures

CBS receiver with color attachment plug

Midway color converter

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

Adapters

Allowed field sequential broadcasts to be viewed on black and white sets

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