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Mechanical Television

Surviving Mechanical TV Set Database

If you have information on the location of any mechanical TV sets, please contact us. Any information will be kept confidential. With their consent, we will publish the owner's name here.

Sets added in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 2010 and 2011

American Mechanical Sets

Manufacturer

Model Number 

Verified (museums)

Verified (collectors)

Reported
Bell Labs Picture telephone (1927)

1

Museum of the Moving Image (NY)

    
Large grid receiver (1928)

1

Museum of the Moving Image (NY)

    
Canadian Television Ltd. 1932 Model (Ouimet)
1
Canada Science Museum (Ottawa)

 

  
Case Labs Scanning disk

1

Auman Museum (OH)

 

  
Daven   Tri Standard
2
Early Television Museum
MZTV (Toronto)

 

  
Receiver
1
Early Television Museum
   
24 Line  

1

Anonymous

  
Freed-Eisemann Receiver  

1

Anonymous

  
General Electric        Octagon
3
Henry Ford Museum (MI)
MZTV (Toronto)
Schenectady Museum (NY)

1

Anonymous

 
Globe Radiovisor
2
MZTV (Toronto)
Early Television Museum

 

  
Hollis Baird (SW & Television)

  

 C-3-S  SW Receiver (Cathedral)
3
Early Television Museum
MZTV (Toronto) (2)

6

Anonymous (6)

  
AM/SW Receiver (Console)
1
Early Television Museum

 

  
Model 25/35 Receiver
1
Early Television Museum

1

Anonymous

  
Model 26/36 Televisor
3
Auman Museum (OH)
Henry Ford Museum (MI)
MZTV (Toronto)
2
Bill Schirding
Anonymous

 

  
Model 437 Receiver/televisor  
1
Anonymous
 
Home made with Baird drum assembly  
1
Anonymous
 
Scanning Drum Console  

1

Anonymous

  
? Televisor
2
Museum of the Moving Image (NY)
Smithsonian Institute (DC)

1

Anonymous

  
Home made 24,48,60 Line
5
Early Television Museum (2)
Indiana State Museum (IN)
MZTV (Toronto) (2)
9
Anonymous (9)
 
I.C.A  Visionette Kit
2
MZTV (Toronto)
Pavek Museum of Broadcasting (MN)

1

Anonymous

  
Model 45 Televisor Kit 
2
MZTV (Toronto) (2)
1
Darryl Hock
 
Jenkins 100
3
Early Television Museum
New England Wireless and Steam Museum (RI)
Museum of the Moving Image (NY)

3

Anonymous (3)

  
201

1

MZTV (Toronto)

 

  
202

2

Franklin Institute (PA)

MZTV (Toronto)

1

Anonymous

  
302  

1

Luc Sirois

  
Amateur Kit
1
Henry Ford Museum (MI)

 

  
JD-30 Receiver
2
Early Television Museum
MZTV (Toronto)

 

  
JK-20
1
MZTV (Toronto)

 

  
R-400 Projection  

1

Anonymous

1

Anonymous
RK-1
2
Henry Ford Museum (MI)
Smithsonian Institute (DC)

4

Darryl Hock (2)

Anonymous (2)

  
60 Line Lens Disk
1
Wayne County Museum (NC)

 

  
Pioneer 60 Line  

2

Ira Grossman

Luc Sirois

  
Rawls TV85
1
Rawls Museum Arts (VA)
   
RCA 60 Line
4
Early Television Museum
Henry Ford Museum (MI) (3)

1 Darryl Hock

  
Roth-Downs

Orpheus Lens Disk

  
1
Anonymous
 
Visionette  
1
Darryl Hock
 
Television Mfg. Co. See-All Kit
1
Museum of Radio and Television (MD)

2

Anonymous

  
Western Television (Echophone) Receiver  
2
Anonymous (2)
 
Visionette
6
Early Television Museum
MZTV (Toronto) (2)
Smithsonian Institute (DC)
Mecosta County Historical Museum (MI)
UCLA (CA)
27
Tom Genova
Ed Reitan
Luc Sirois
Anonymous (24)
 
Model 41
1
Franklin Institute (PA)
6
Luc Sirois
Mike Molnar
Anonymous (4)
 
Empire State
2
Early Television Museum
Smithsonian Institute (DC)

 

  

Total

  

57

75

1

British Mechanical Sets

Manufacturer

Model Number 

Verified (museums)

Verified (collectors)

Reported
Baird Televisor

14

DASA Deutsche Arbeitsschutz-Ausstellung (Germany)

Early Television Museum

Fernsehmuseum Farvis (Pfingstadt, Germany)

Hastings Museum (England)

MZTV (Toronto) (2) National Media Museum (England)

National Museum of Scotland

Powerhouse Museum

RAI Museum (Italy)

Spanish Museum of Science and Technology

Technikmuseum (Berlin, Germany)

Transport Museum (Scotland)

8

Darryl Hock

Anonymous (7)

 

 

 1 Anonymous  
Televisor kit  

2

Anonymous (2)		  
Model B

1

National Media Museum (England)		    
Prototype  

1

Anonymous		  
Daily Express Scanning disk kit

1

National Museum of Scotland

    
Home made Scanning disk

1

National Media Museum (England)		    

Total

  

16

11

1

European Mechanical Sets

Gerolf Poetschke's site has pictures of 15 surviving German mechanical sets, and information on another 3 that are known to exist. Below are surviving sets from other European countries.

Manufacturer

Model Number 

Verified (museums)

Verified (collectors)

Reported
CDC (Barthelemy) (France) 30 Line Scanning disk
2
Radio France Museum
CNAM Museum

2

Anonymous (2)

  
Fracarro (Italy) 30 line scanning disk

1

Early Television Museum

    
Fumeo (Italy) 30 line scanning disk  

1

Anonymous

  
Homemade 30 line scanning disk
1
Radio France Museum
   
Integra (France) Scanning disk  

1

Anonymous

  
Brami (General Radio) (France) Visiola  

1

Anonymous

  
Radiosavod Kominterna (Russia) 1932 scanning disk

1

Popov Museum (St. Petersburg)

    
Savod M.A. Chernov Moskau (Russia) 1933 30 line mirror screw

1

Popov Museum (St. Petersburg)

    
Savod Kozitskogo (Russia) B2
2
Popov Museum (St. Petersburg)
Moscow Polytechnic Museum