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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 and 2010

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

 
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)

5

Anonymous (5)

  
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)

1

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

  
Homemade 24,48,60 Line

5

Early Television Museum (2)

Indiana State Museum (IN)

MZTV (Toronto) (2)

8

Anonymous (8)

  
I.C.A  Visionette Kit

2

MZTV (Toronto)

Pavek Museum of Broadcasting (MN)

1

Anonymous

 
Bakelite Front 

1

MZTV (Toronto)

 

  
Oak Box Kit

1

MZTV (Toronto)

1

Anonymous

  
Jenkins 100

3

Early Television Museum

New England Wireless and Steam Museum (RI)

Museum of the Moving Image (NY)

2

Anonymous (2)

  
201

1

MZTV (Toronto)

 

  
202

2

Franklin Institute (PA)

MZTV (Toronto)

1

Anonymous

 
302  

1

Anonymous

 
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)

3

Darryl Hock

Anonymous (2)

  
60 Line Lens Disk

1

Wayne County Museum (NC)

 

  
Pioneer 60 Line  

2

Ira Grossman

Anonymous

 
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

Anonymous

 
Western Television (Echophone) Visionette

5

Early Television Museum

MZTV (Toronto) (2)

Smithsonian Institute (DC)

UCLA (CA)

24

Tom Genova

Ed Reitan

Anonymous (22)

  
Model 41

1

Franklin Institute (PA)

4

Anonymous (4)

  
Empire State

2

Early Television Museum

Smithsonian Institute (DC)

 

  

Total

  

55

64

1

 

British Mechanical Sets

Manufacturer

Model Number 

Verified (museums)

Verified (collectors)

Reported
Baird Televisor

13

DASA Deutsche Arbeitsschutz-Ausstellung (Germany)

Early Television Museum

Fernsehmuseum Farvis (Pfingstadt, Germany)

Hastings Museum (England)

MZTV (Toronto) (2)

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (England)

National Museum of Scotland

Powerhouse Museum

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 Museum of Photography, Film & Television (England)

    
Prototype  

1

Anonymous

  
Daily Express kit Scanning disk

1

National Museum of Scotland

    

Total

  

15

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) Scanning disk  

3

Anonymous (3)

  
Fracarro 30 line scanning disk

1

Early Television Museum

    
Fumeo 30 line scanning disk  

1

Anonymous

  
Integra Scanning disk  

1

Anonymous

  
Brami (General Radio) Visiola  

1

Anonymous

  

Total

  

1

6

 
 

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