ETF - Television History

Television History

These links will take you to articles, stories, and other information about the history of early television.

Mechanical Television

Mechanical Television	Brief history
How Television Came to Boston	Mechanical TV in Boston
Mechanical broadcasting stations	History of U. S. mechanical stations
Baird Television	John Logie Baird
Introduction to the History of Television	Texts on television before 1900
Los Angeles TV Reminiscing	Don Lee, other early broadcasting
The First TV in Columbus ?	OSU student made a receiver in 1928
A T & T Television in 1927	75th Anniversary of Bell Telephone TV transmission
Early Television Receivers in Columbus, Ohio	The story of Murry Mercier, Jr., an early Columbus, Ohio TV experimenter

Early Electronic Television

Television before WW2	Brief history
The Evolution of the Damper Diode	History by Dr. Hugo Holden
The Dawn of Modern, Electronic Television	Paper by Nat Pendleton
The Farnsworth Chronicles	The story of Philo Farnsworth
Zworykin's 1933 Photo Album	Early photos from Zworykin's lab
Eight Years of Television in California	Early television in California
Los Angeles TV Reminiscing	Don Lee, other early broadcasting
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia	Early television in Philadelphia
Andrea 1-F-5 Found	Prewar set found in New Jersey
RCA TT-5 Found	Prewar set found in Springfield, MO
Prewar Television Stations	History of stations in the U. S. before and during WW2
KSTP	Minneapolis-St. Paul
TV During World War Two	Brief history

Postwar Television

The DuMont Network	History of the Dumont Network
Stratovision	Airborne TV stations
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth	Television coverage of 1953 coronation

Early Color Television

Early Color	Brief history
History of Early Color Television	Comprehensive history by Ed Reitan

International TV History

History of the BBC - Television Arrives	History of television and the BBC
Alexandra Palace Television Society	Site of the first British TV studios
ABC-TV at Gore Hill in the Fifties	Australia
Brazilian TV history	The first television broadcasting in Latin America
First TV Shop in London ?	Pictures of an early TV shop
Victor's World of Television	History of early British TV
Envisioning the Audience: perceptions of early German television's audiences, 1935-1944	German TV before WW2 by William Uricchio
Early French Broadcasting	French early electronic television
German TV in 1935	German TV before WW2
A Brief History of German Prewar Television	Brief history by Nat Pendleton
December 1986 EBU Review	Early German TV
Kenjiro Takayanagi	Japanese TV
History of TV in Mexico	(In Spanish)
The first TV station in Mexico	Translated to English
Early Television in Italy	Article by Andy Emmerson
TV in Leningrad	Russian TV
RCA's Russian TV Connection	Article by James O'Neal
TV in Czechoslovakia	History of TV from 1948 to 1990