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Mechanical Television

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

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