Mechanical Broadcast Equipment Gallery

Early Television

Mechanical Television

Mechanical Broadcast Equipment Gallery

Mechanical Cameras

Early Television

1926 Baird camera

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Early Baird camera, on display at the Baird Bar in Edinborough, Scotland

Courtesy of Lee Schaeffer

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WRNY camera, made by Pilot, 1928

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Baird 1928 camera

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KDKA camera, 1928

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1928 camera

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Jenkins Aerial Television Eye (1929)

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General Electric camera (ca 1929)

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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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Sliskovic camera and scanner (1930)

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

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Ardenne 60 line flying spot scanner (1931)

Unidentfied German camera and scanner

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

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Russian flying spot scanner (ca 1930)

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RCA 120 line camera (1931)

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Direct pickup camera in the NHK Museum

Courtesy of Jerome Halphen

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Jenkins 1932 camera

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French direct pickup lens disk camera

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TeKaDe camera and scanner (1934)

Courtesy of Gerolf Poetschke

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Baird Intermediate film camera

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Barthelemy (France) 1935 60/120 line camera

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Barthelemy (France) 1935 180/240 line camera

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Barthelemy (France) 1935 240 line film camera

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Peck camera and transmitter (1935)

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ATI camera (1936)

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Don Lee 300 line film camera (1936)

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National School camera (1936)

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Fernseh mechanical film scanner with two projectors

Early Television

Telefunken intermediate film camera, using Nipkow disk

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ICA 1939 camera

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Jenkins camera at Coyne Electrical School

Early Television

Courtesy of The American Museum of Photography

Direct pickup mechanical camera at Marshall Field department store in Chicago

Mechanical Studios and Transmitters