In 2003 I was introduced to Murry Mercier Jr., an 89 year old Columbus resident who was one of  the first in the city to experiment with television. Mr. Mercier became interested in radio at an early age, and, in late 1928 and early 1929, he and his father, Murry Mercier Sr. built two television receivers. One, with a 24 line disk, was used to receive broadcasts from WGY in Schenectady, New York. The other, which could receive both 45 and 60 line pictures, was used to receive broadcasts from KDKA in Pittsburgh and W3XK in Silver Spring, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.). Neither set had any sort of synchronization, so the viewer had to constantly adjust ("drive", as Mr. Mercier describes it) the motor speed to keep the picture still. Click here for Murry Mercier's story .