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Mechanical Television

Narrow Band Television Association   Britain MZTV Mechanical TV
Baird's Independent Television  Jim Hawes mechanical TV site
The World's Earliest Television Recordings - Restored Baird Television  Iain Baird's Site
Levend   Netherlands Adventures in Cybersound   Dead Media Project    
Henry Ford Museum Pictures    Wayne Bretl History of Television  Tom Genova
Chicago Television History Introduction to the History of  Television  TV before 1900
Peter Yanczer's site  

 

Electronic Television Before WW2 - U.S.

MZTV   1939 World Fair The Farnsworth Chronicles
Zworykin's 1933 Photo Album San Francisco Museum   History of  TV in California
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Early TV in Philadelphia History of Television  Tom Genova

 

Electronic Television Before WW2 - Outside the U.S.

History of the BBC - Television Arrives Envisioning the Audience: perceptions of early German television's audiences, 1935-1944  William Uricchio
Alexandra Palace Television Society  Victor's World of Television   Early TV and the BBC
The Story of Television from Alexandra Palace BBC Test Cards
Steve Ostler's Vintage Televisions David Boynes Collection (U. K)
Marconi Television History Early British Sets   Ian Watson
Mexican TV History (in Spanish) Levend    Netherlands
History of Italian TV The Evolution of TV  TV in Japan
German TV in 1935 Henk Dijkstra's Cathode Ray Tubes (Netherlands)

 

TV from 1946-56

The DuMont Network History of Television  Tom Genova
David Boynes Collection   U. K. Bell System Microwave Networks
405 Alive  U. K. ABC-TV at Gore Hill in the Fifties (Australia)

 

Early Color Television

CT-100 Restoration    Pete Deksnis History of Early Color Television   Ed Reitan
Fred Hoffmann's CT-100 Restoration History of Television  Tom Genova
Westinghouse 15 Inch Color Marlin Mackley Smith, Kline & French Medical Color TV Unit
Kris Trexler's site Steve Dichter 
Early Color TV    John Folsom  

 

Early Television Cameras and Studio Equipment

Chuck Pharis's Camera Site Kris Trexler's RCA TK-41 Color TV camera
RCA Equipment Archives Golden Age Television Recreations (UK)
Broadcast Camera Museum (Europe) Chalk Hill Educational Media

 

On Line Films and Videos

W9XAP on the Silver Screen   (1931) Behind Your Radio Dial (1947)
Magic in the Air  (1941) Magic in the Air (1955)
Radio and Television (1940) RCA Presentation: Television  (1939)
The Story of Television (1956) Farnsworth on "I've Got a Secret" (1957)
Popular Science Newsreel (Farnsworth) (1937) Farnsworth's First Picture (1977)
The Origins of Television (1996) The First Electronic Image
A Retrospective - "Pem" Farnsworth (1988) Replica of Image Dissector  (1977)
BBC Programming (Alexandra Palace site) (1937-39) Films from the BBC (1936-39)

 

Museums Specializing in TV/Radio

Auman Museum   Ohio Vintage Radio & Communications Musuem of Connecticut
MZTV   Toronto Museum of Radio & Technology  Huntington, WV
John Rivers Communication Museum South Carolina Museum of Broadcast Communications Chicago
Pavek Museum of Broadcasting  St. Louis Park, MN National Museum of Photography, Film & Television   Britain
Antique Wireless Association   Rochester, NY American Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, NY
Radio-TV Museum Bowie, MD  David Sarnoff Library Princeton, NJ
NHK Broadcast Museum   Japan Marcel's TV Museum  Netherlands 
TV Dinner Club Museum   Akron, OH Kuba Museum Germany

 

Museums with TV Displays

Smithsonian Institution   Washington, D. C. Henry Ford Museum    Detroit
South Carolina State Museum  Columbia  Indiana State Museum  Indianapolis
Canada Science and Technology Musuem    Ottawa, Canada The New England Wireless and Steam  Museum   Rhode Island
Powerhouse Museum  Australia  

 

Early TV Collections

Chuck Azzalina Bob Grasso
Dave Blewette Fred Hoffmann
British prewar/early postwar collection Kevin's Vintage TVs
David Boynes U. K. Marlin Mackley
Eric Coon Dave May
Sonny Clutter Mark Nelson's Boosters and Converters
Dave's Vintage TVs Graham Parks  U.K.
Steve Dichter Pat's TV Museum   Netherlands
Roger DuPouy  France Luc Sirois  Canada
Eckhard Etzold  Germany Eric Walsh
Jonathan Evans Collection  U. K. Ian Watson  U.K.
John Folsom   

 

Other Links

Collectics Antiques & Collectibles Directory The Electron Age
Collectors Weekly Television page What You Need to Know about Inventors
What You Need to Know About Classic TV Video History Project
Hot vs. Not TV Lamps
Experience Columbus Radio Museum