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Prewar Picture Tubes

 

14AP4 manufacturing process
1939 list of American CRTs
1943 CRT data sheets
American Television Institute CRT manufacturing
DuMont 20AP4 specifications

 

 

 

Western Electric 224-B (1927). Used in many early TV experiments

 

 

Experimental 5 inch CRT (ca 1930) Used in early TV tests

 

 

 

12AP4 (12 inch) used in U.S. mirror in lid sets. Click for pictures of the manufacturing process or a magazine ad featuring the tube.

 

 

 

Cossor 3244 (5 inch) used in Cossor 54

 

 

14AP4, used in early DuMont 14 inch sets. Click here for how they were made

 

 

 

Mazda CRM-71 (7 inch). Used in Ekco TA-201 and TS-201

 

 

Safar VS 4/35 (1938)

 

 

Telefunken RFB/T2. 19.5 x 22.5 cm. First rectangular CRT (1939). Click for article.

 

 

 

Emiscope 3/1 (5 inch), used in early HMV and Marconi sets

 

 

 

HMV 1800 tube (12 inch). Notice the unusual neck.

 

 

Mazda CRM-121 (12 inch) first made in 1938, but used in British sets until the early 50s.

 

 

 

Emiscope 3/4 (9 inch)

 

 

Cossor  3272 (13.5 inch) used in Cossor 137T. Click for ad.

 

 

 

Emiscope 6/6 (12 inch) used in early HMV and Marconi mirror in lid sets

 

 

 

Lorenz 50 cm (20 inch) CRT

 

 

 

Lorenz projection CRTs

 

 

1936 German CRT. Click for more information

 

 

 

Baird 15MW3 Cathovisor (15 inch) used in Baird T-5 and T-23. Click for ad. 

(Courtesy of Dave Abramson)

 

 

 

 

This tube was made by Philips between 1936 and 1938 at their laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. They were sold for use in home made television receivers, and in a few complete sets made by Philips.

 

 

Compagnie des Compteurs 3". Click for more information

 

 

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