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Early Color Television

Field Sequential Prototypes 

 

Receivers and Monitors

1941 CBS prototype

 

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). Uses an RCA 9-T-246 chassis   as a starting point, to which CBS added the color wheel, motor and circuit modifications.

  Courtesy of John Folsom

 

A picture from the screen of John Folsom's RX-43  

DuMont 12 1/2 inch industrial monitor (1950)

The same industrial monitor as a receiver

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

 

Gray Research 1101 (1950) studio monitor

 

Industrial Color Television Monitor Console (1950)

 

 

CBS 12CC2 (1951). The image on the screen was generated by the color bar generator made by the museum. Here are a sales brochure and a Popular Science article. Bob Grasso has built this replica.

Courtesy of Ed Reitan

 

 

10" CBS “Slave”/”Companion” (1951)

(Permission to use photo from Ed Reitan)

 

DuMont 7 inch industrial monitor (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.

 

 

Converters

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

CBS "Personal Viewer" (1950)

 

Crosley Color Converter (1950)

CBS RX-40/41 (1950) Color Converter

Teletone Tele-Color

Webster-Chicago Converter

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

CBS receiver with color attachment plug

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

 

Adapters

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

Advertisements for adapters

Admiral adapter

 

Colortone adapter