Early Television Museum
Television History
These links will take you to articles, stories, and other information about the history of early television.
Mechanical Television
Brief history |
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Mechanical TV in Boston |
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| Mechanical broadcasting stations | History of U. S. mechanical stations |
John Logie Baird |
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Texts on television before 1900 |
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Don Lee, other early broadcasting |
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OSU student made a receiver in 1928 |
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75th Anniversary of Bell Telephone TV transmission |
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The story of Murry Mercier, Jr., an early Columbus, Ohio TV experimenter |
Pre-1945 Electronic Television
| Pre-1945 Television | 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 |
| Pre-1945 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 |