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Get Ready to Sell Television - 1944 Book

 

This 1944 book was written to describe how television could be sold to the American public after World War Two. All of the sets shown are prewar, but some, such as the RCA TRK-12 with the large screen, were prototypes developed during the war

 

 

This set is a RCA TRK-12 modified with a projection screen

 

 

 

General Electric HM-225

 

 

RCA TRK-12

 

 

 

At the left, a General Electric HM-185, at the right on the floor a HM-171

 

 

 

A RCA TRK-9

 

 

Don Lee's W6XAO televised the rose bowl parade in 1940

 

 

 

 

On the left, a RCA TRK-12 (notice the lock on the front). On the right, a Philco 1938 model

 

 

A RCA TRK-12 which appears to have an enlarged screen

 

 

A General Electric HM-226

 

 

 

A pair of DuMont 180s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another General Electric HM-226

 

 

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