Early Broadcast Equipment
Early Mechanical Broadcast Equipment Gallery
Mechanical Cameras
1926 Baird camera |
Early Baird camera, on display at the Baird Bar in Edinborough, Scotland Courtesy of Lee Schaeffer
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Baird 1928 camera
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1928 camera
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Jenkins Aerial Television Eye (1929)
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General Electric camera (ca 1929) |
Western Junior Camera (ca 1930)
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ICA Camera/Transmitter (ca 1930)
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Direct pickup camera (1930)
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Ardenne 60 Line Flying Spot Scanner (1931)
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Barthelemy (France) 1935 60/120 Line Camera |
French direct pickup lens disk camera
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Barthelemy (France) 1935 180/240 line camera
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Barthelemy (France) 1935 240 line film camera |
Fernseh mechanical film scanner with two projectors |
Peck camera and transmitter (1935)
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Don Lee 300 line film camera (1936)
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Telefunken intermediate film camera, using Nipkow disk
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Mechanical Transmitters
Mechanical Studios
| 1931-39 W2XAB Studios | 1933 W6XAH Studio |
| 1932 W9XK Studio | 1935 BBC Studio |