Museum Hours:

Saturday 10-6

Sunday 12-5

1933 RCA Iconoscope camera

RCA mobile camera (1937)

Early RCA studio camera

Newsreel clip with this camera

RCA field camera (1939)

RCA studio camera (1939)

1939 American Television Corp. camera

Courtesy of Mike Schultz

More pictures, information on use in medical television

1939 Massachusetts Television Institute camera

RCA portable camera (1943)

With ultra long lens

(Courtesy of Luc Sirois)

These four units - camera control, power supply, pulse shaper and sync generator were used with the orthicon camera.

RCA Orthicon camera (1943-45)

DuMont Portable Televisor (1941)

CBS pre-1945 camera

Courtesy of Steve Dichter

Farnsworth 1936 camera

Interior of the Farnsworth camera

German Camera for 1936 Olympics 

1940 ATI Iconoscope camera

Philco camera used at W3XE (1937)

EMI Emitron (1936)

Safar Safar Telepantoscope (1938)  

Vertical scanning is mechanical, horizontal is electronic

RCA 35 mm film projector for TV (1939)

Midland Television camera, 1939

Fernseh 1939 iconoscope camera

Fernseh slide scanner, 1939

French 1939 iconoscope camera

Telefunken film scanner, using iconoscope, 1939 

Remington Rand Vericon, 1940

Farnsworth 1941 portable camera

General Electric 1938 camera

DuMont 1939 iconoscope camera

Interior of DuMont camera