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May 7
More on Canadian Amateur Iconoscope camera
 
May 6
Canadian Amateur Iconoscope camera
 
May 5
More pictures of RCA ITV-1 camera
Labor TV in Chicago
 
Apr 27
Color Database updated: RCA 21CT55 added
 
Apr 26
Color Database updated: Motorola 19CT1, RCA CTC-4 added
New Acquisition: RCA ITV-1 Industrial Vidicon Camera and Monitor
 
Apr 25
Prewar Database updated: 3 - RCA TRK-12/120s added
 
Apr 15
Color Database updated: RCA 21CT55 added
Prewar Database updated: Cossor 1210 added
 
Apr 13
Life Magazine photos of CBS 1951 color program
Mallory 1945 TV ad
Crosley 9-403MA ad
Philco 48-1001 ad
General Electric 1944 Synchro-lite ad
 
Apr 11
Reminder: The Convention is about a month away. If you plan to attend, please register.
Lee Radio & Television - Fremont, NE
First TV Broadcast in Romania (1938)
Radio-Television Institute (New York)
First National Television 1936 Christmas party
WGN transmitting antenna, 1948
 
Apr 9
2013 Article from The Institution of Engineering and Technology about the Emitron
Convention auction rules posted
 
Apr 6
Videodyne 10-FM chassis photo
1940 RCA Service Company card
 
Apr 4
TV equipment in RCA Broadcast Equipment Catalog - 1939 (courtesy of Cliff Benham)
TV Test equipment in 1939 RCA Broadcast Equipment Catalog(courtesy of Cliff Benham)
 
Mar 26
Thomson-CSF field sequential system
One Tank Trips, WJW Cleveland
 
Mar 25
More auction items for the 2013 Convention, including a CT-100
 
Mar 24
Another RCA CT-100 for sale
 
Mar 19
Wm. J. Stuebing Television and Appliance Store, Glouchester, NJ
National Radio School (Cleveland)
 
Mar 13
GE one tube color camera
A T & T network, 1952
DuMont 19 inch color CRT
Professional Charges for TV Service
Coin operated GE receiver
NRI kit photo
GE Octagon replica photo
 
Mar 12
Spanning the Continent by Radio Relay
Petruff Radio-Television, Miami
 
Mar 10
Auction items for the 2013 Convention
 
Mar 7
RCA CT-100 for sale
 
Mar 4
Prewar, rare postwar and early color sets for auction
Prewar Database updated: HMV 904 added
 
Feb 28
More on restoration of the DuMont Industrial Monitor
 
Feb 26
Pictures of a Midwest console from 1950
 
Feb 24
Revised RCA Model 5 serial numbers from Pete Deksnis
 
Feb 23
Revised CTC-2 serial numbers from Pete Deksnis
 
Feb 22
Midwest JR-32 advertisement
 
Feb 21
Articles about Videograph Television Jukebox
Color Database updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added
 
Feb 20
Sony Chromatron sets
 
Feb 19
Massachusetts Television Institute 1939 camera
 
Feb 17
Picture of 1948 graduating class of the American Radio Institute
Basic Television Restoration (from Radios-TV.co/uk)
 
Feb 13
Prewar Database updated: RCA TRK-12/120 added
 
Feb 12
Article about 19 inch Motorola color sets
 
Feb 11
More on restoration of the DuMont Industrial Monitor
 
Feb 10
Transvision field strength meter
 
Feb 5
More progress on the RCA CPA prototype
 
Feb 4
Prewar Database updated:Farnsworth 9 inch console added
 
Feb 3
CBS 12CC2 Replica
 
Feb 1
Japanese paper on 21CYP22
Color Telerama - Cliff Benham's giant color wheel set
 
Jan 29
DuMont RA-103D Rumson
KTLA televises atomic bomb blast - 1952
 
Jan 28
More on restoration of the DuMont Industrial Monitor
Transvision
Surviving mechanical, prewar and color sets added during 2012
More information on W3XWT
Prewar Database updated: RCA TRK-5 added
 
Jan 26
Pacifica Network interview
 
Jan 23
Online registration for the 2013 Early Television Convention (May 17-19) is now available. We also have room for more presentations.
 
Jan 21
New acquisition: Midwest JR-32
 
Jan 20
New acquisition: Sylvania Dualette
 
Jan 19
Last mystery of the RCA CPA prototype solved - Automatic field one detection
 
Jan 11
1941 patent on Mexian field sequential system
 
Jan 8, 2013
Mexican field sequential system
 
Dec 24
TAC Champion
John Logie Baird's Last Projects
 
Dec 16
More progress on the RCA CPA prototype
 
Dec 10
A Buyers Guide to Television Receivers (1936)
 
Dec 9
Timeline added
 
Dec 6
Color TV Demonstrations Reveal Engineering Progress (courtesy of John Yurkon)
 
Dec 4
Pictures from the screen of the RCA CPA prototype
 
Dec 1
More progress on the RCA CPA prototype - dynamic convergence circuits working
 
Nov 21
Apollo Moon Mission Color Camera
 
Nov 18
The Wizard of Oz in CPA
 
Nov 17
Prewar Database updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added
 
Nov 15
Prewar Database updated: GEC 9122 previously added changed to GEC 8121
 
Nov 12
Color Database updated: Motorola 19CK1 added
 
Nov 9
DuMont Industrial Color Monitor restoration
 
Nov 7
New acquistion: DuMont Industrial Color Monitor
More pictures of the DuMont Industrial Color Monitor
 
Nov 6
CPA at last!
DuMont Industrial Color Monitor arrives at the museum - pictures
 
Nov 5
More progress on the RCA CPA prototype
Updated list of parts available from the museum
 
Nov 4
Italian Pre-1945 Stations
 
Oct 28
Color Database updated: RCA 21CT55 added
 
Oct 21
New acquisition: American Television 14T6
 
Oct 19
Parts available from the museum
 
Oct 18
Prewar Database updated: Emyradio 95, GEC BT-9122 added
More pictures of GEC BT-8161
 
Oct 16
Truetone 7 inch set with canvas carrying case
Color Database updated: Col-R-Tel 100 added
 
Oct 14
Radio Setbuilders catalog, 1929
 
Oct 13
WRGB 1946 postcard
Experimental RCA monoscope
 
Oct 12
More on TRK-5 cabinet restoration
Errors corrected in Prewar Database. Total survivng American: 285 confirmed, 9 reported. British: 237 confirmed, 16 reported
 
Oct 11
Prewar Database updated: RCA TRK-12/120 added
 
Oct 10
A real coal powered TV set
 
Oct 9
Fournier d'Albe television system - 1924
 
Oct 8
More on David Boynes restoration of a Pye 405 line color set
 
Oct 7
Jenkins 1928 mirror drum scanner
A plea for standards - 1928
WRNY and KDKA mechanical cameras
 
Oct 6
Prewar Database updated: RCA TRK-12/120 added
Zenith Flashmatic
 
Oct 5
Massachusetts Television Institute and United Radio-Televisioon Institute
Pete Deksnis's site now online here
 
Oct 4
More pictures of RCA prototype 3 gun color tube
RCA 1952 "Walkie-Lookie" camera
Pictures of Darryl Hock's restored ICA Model 45
 
Sept 30
W6XYZ 1945 program schedule and Christmas card
 
Sept 25
Strange Color TV Device
Prewar Database updated: GEC BT-8161 (cabinet only), Marconi 702 and R.G.D. RG-382 RG added
 
Sept 22
Colordaptor magazine articles
 
Sept 21
Restoration of our RCA TRK-5 empty cabinet
 
Sept 16
Prewar Database updated: TRK-12/120 added
DuMont Telecruiser being restored
Les Premiers Regards de la Television (1936) Sept 6, 1936 issue of L'Illustration
Stratovision photo
Sprayberry advertisement
W3XK transmitter
Jenkins photos
Baird Telechrome photo
More on RCA demo of TV in an airplane
 
Sept 14
More progress on the RCA CPA prototype
Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color article
Turner field sequential color film system (1902)
 
Sept 13
NBC studio control room
Large RCA prototype CRT
 
Sept 12
KNXT Transmitter on Mt. Wilson
Barthelemy mechanical camera at the CNAM Museum, Paris
Mechanical Database updated: CDC (Barthelemy) (France) 30 line scanning disk added
Prewar Database updated: CDC 1935 model and Chauvierre Visiodyne Baby added
Compagnie des Compteurs (CdC) 1935 receiver in the CNAM Museum, Paris
Chauvierre Visiodyne Baby in the CNAM Museum, Paris
 
Sept 11
American Radio Institute pictures
 
Sept 10
Date set for 2013 Convention
Color Database updated: General Electric 15CL100 added
 
Sept 9
RCA CPA prototype now displaying NTSC color bars
 
Sept 7
Article in the AWA Journal by Richard Brewster about Hollis Baird and electronic television
 
Aug 30
Bell Labs 1932 picturphone
W2XCR article
FCC Chairman Frank R. McNinch on camera, 1939
Astatic booster brochure
Chicago Police Commissioner John H. Alcock being televised in 1930
Hager's Television and Radio Repair Shop, Napa, CA
 
Aug 29
Steam powered mechanical receiver project
 
Aug 28
Tradiovision dealer signs
 
Aug 23
Prewar Database updated: Cossor 54 added
 
Aug 19
Jon Evans of The Valve Page has provided us this article from the Cossor Courier magazine of September 1936 describing the Cossor 137T
 
Aug 10
Eidophor story
 
Aug 2
Videos of Nick Williams at RACS and Nick's report
Radio interview with Steve McVoy on WRCA tomorrow night 11 EDT
 
July 31
RCA CTC-5 Advertisements
RCA 1937 Test Chart
Prices for 1949 TV sets
 
July 30
1935 picture of Farnsworth TV image
 
July 28
DuMont 12 1/2 inch Industrial Color Monitor coming to the museum
More Ralph Batcher articles scanned
DuMont Multiscanner
More on DuMont industrial color system
 
July 26
DuMont Sued by CBS - industrial color system
 
July 25
Article about DuMont industrial color system
Degaussing coil
 
July 18
More pictures of DuMont industrial 12 1/2 inch color monitor
Video about Alexandra Palace in World War two
 
July 12
We Bring You Live Pictures -- "By Eurovision & Satellite" - video from APTS
 
July 7
NBC Hatches Rainbow of Color
 
July 6
Color Database updated: Magnavox CTC-4 clone added
 
July 5
DuMont industrial 12 1/2 inch color monitor
 
July 4
Pye MK 3 camera used in 1953 color telecast of coronation
DuMont industrial monitor with tuner
 
July 3
The Popular Radio SW converter
 
July 2
More on RCA TRK-12 modifications for the 1939 World's Fair
Prewar Database updated: DuMont 180 added
Color Database updated: DuMont Industrial 12 1/2 inch monitor, 3 - RCA TM21 monitors added