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Saturday 10-6

Sunday 12-5

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Other Resources

Television History
Books and Magazines relating to early television
Online films and videos
Early Televison Collectors

 

Mechanical Television

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

 

Electronic Television Before WW2 - U.S.

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

 

Electronic Television Before WW2 - Outside the U.S.

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

 

TV from 1946-56

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

 

Early Color Television

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

 

Early Television Cameras, Video Recorders and Studio Equipment

Broadcast Camera Museum Europe LabGuy's World:Video Tape Recorders before Betamax and VHS
Chalk Hill Educational Media Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera  U. K.
Chuck Pharis's Camera Site Museum of Broadcast Technology  Woonsocket, RI
Eyes of a Generation RCA Equipment Archives
Golden Age Television Recreations U. K. Total Rewind VCR Museum   Virtual
Kris Trexler's RCA TK-41 Color TV camera  

 

Museums Secializing in TV/Radio

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

Museums with TV Displays

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

 

Other Links

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