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Changes and Additions to the Site

Feb 2
Preliminary schematic diagram of Prototype Color Chassis (IF and sound circuits)
 
Jan 28
Color Database updated: Muntz 721CV added
 
Jan 27
Pictures of Hoffman Colorcaster M4021A, Packard Bell 21CC1 and Raytheon C-21C1M
Web page width changed to allow for up to 900 pixel wide images
 
Jan 26
Color Database updated: Hoffman M4021A, Motorola 19CT1, Packard Bell 21CC1 and Raytheon C21C1M added
 
Jan 23
Lee DeForest with iconocsope camera
1946 WPTZ picture
W2XB transmitter
 
Jan 20
More on Topps card
Jenkins 302 scanner
Baird's television broadcasting in the fall of 1926
Missing pages from TV's New Trick: Hidden Commercials
 
Jan 19
Belmont 21A21 picture
RCA 1939 radio ad - television input
U. A. Sanabria and Lee DeForest with iconocsope
 
Jan 18
Topps Trading Card
6 Minutes on Screen, 9 Weeks of Work
 
Jan 17
3XN, Bell Labs experimental station
WOR to Broadcast Pictures in Month
 
Jan 15
Philco disclosure for optics system, possibly for 48-2500
Philco Color Projection System
 
Jan 13
RCA Building at the World's Fair
 
Jan 12
Paper by the Chairman of the FCC explaining the thinking that led to the adoption of the CBS color system
 
Jan 11
Crater lamps
Image Orthicon specification sheets
 
Jan 10
New acquisition: Knox Telecaster
RCA TM-10 monitor
More on RCA World War Two camera
Gilfillan Brothers World War Two item
 
Jan 8
For a report on how many mechanical, prewar and early color sets we added to our databases during 2011, go to our Facebook page
Color Database updated: RCA TM-10A monitor added
 
Jan 6
Garod 5 inch console in Chinese magazine
 
Jan 5, 2012
You can now register online for the convention
Rider Receiver Trouble Cures, Vol 1-7, scanned by Mark Roberts
Cossor 137T and GEC advertisements
Canadian TV set schematic diagrams for sale
Specification sheets for 1848, 1850A, 5527 and Philips 5854 iconoscopes
 
Dec 27
Mechanical Database updated: Rawls TV85 added
 
Dec 23
General Electric GM-297
 
Dec 22
Brochure for General Electric Chromacoder system
 
Dec 17
Ediswan CRT receiver design - 1934
 
Dec 16
National Radio Institute 1932 advertisement
National Schools 1932 advertisement
Coyne Electrical School 1932 advertisement
Restoration started on Hoffman 19 inch Colorcaster
Preliminary list of presentations at the 2012 convention
FAB Motorola Color TV Contest
Vidcraft "slave" set
 
Dec 14
Marilyn Monroe (?) and W6XAO
Temple TV-1776 for sale in the Classifieds
 
Dec 13
General Electric HM-171 for sale in the Classifieds
 
Dec 12
Prewar Database updated: General Electric HM-171 added
 
Dec 8
W6XAO camera picture
 
Dec 5
The 2012 Early Television Convention will be held May 4 - 6 at the Museum in Hilliard. If you have a presentation or demonstration you'd like to do at the convention, please contact us.
 
Dec 4
Admiral C322C16 Ambassador color set restoration
 
Nov 30
Spot Radio News - description of color demonstrations at the FCC
More pictures of the GE GM-295
Frank Andrea, Radio and Television Pioneer
Simplified Ham TV Station
Sprayberry advertisement
Norelco Advertisement
Multiplex TV Antenna for Stores
Coin operated receivers
Harvard Laboratories color filter
Picture of Andrea KT-E-5 kit box
RCA 1928 camera
 
Nov 29
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Color System
Custom Video Has Built-In Booster
Ultra Modern Video Control at WOR-TV
 
Nov 28
Radio Craftsman advertisement
 
Nov 25
General Electric model GM-295
WRGB mobile production van
 
Nov 21
Prewar Database updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added
 
Nov 20
Color Database updated: RCA CTC-4 added
1943 Farnsworth Image Dissector Advertisement
 
Nov 19
Television Sender on Truck Transmits Olympic Pictures
 
Nov 18
TV Times Makes a Sentimental Journey (Australian television in 1934)
Nick Fink's Bar, where our Tradiovision set was located
 
Nov 10
Advertisement for 21AXP22 plastic shield
 
Nov 9
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
 
Nov 5
Emerson to Rent Its Color TV Sets
Most Makers Hold Hue Set Production
More on the box for the CBS 205 21 inch conversion
Restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set is complete
 
Nov 4
Ad for Philharmonic 15 inch color set
 
Nov 3
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
 
Nov 2
Video clip about the Baird-EMI competition
 
Oct 29
Box for CBS 205 conversion kit
 
Oct 28
English translation for Roland Huisman's receiver
 
Oct 27
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
 
Oct 25
Article about the museum in the Cincinnati Enquirer
1957 RCA Color TV ad
Television May Solve Star Secrets
Picture of operation being televised by SFK color camera
 
Oct 23
TK-31 in RCA broadcast equipment catalog
 
Oct 22
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
RCA 1959 broadcast equipment price list
Transvision Calalog
 
Oct 21
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
 
Oct 20
DuMont 144-T-9 CRT advertisement
Kenyon advertisement
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
Color photo of 1938 NBC mobile van
Direct pickup mechanical camera - 1930
 
Oct 19
1931 Jenkins lens disk set
Charles Jenkins directing a television production, 1929
Prewar Database updated: Baird T-5 added
 
Oct 17
1938 RMA television standards
 
Oct 16
Astro Antenna
TK-41 in RCA equipment catalog
 
Oct 5
WCFL correspondence course lesson
1997 article in Electronics World about Baird mechanical color
Pictures from BBC color tests
 
Oct 4
Mechanical Database updated: See-All kit added
More pictures of the Baird theatre television system
Who was first, Farnsworth or Zworykin?
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
 
Sept 29
Baird mechanical color theatre television
 
Sept 28
Roland Huisman's mechanical replica - the shortwave receiver
 
Sept 27
We now have a Facebook page, where we will highlight things about the museum
Coin from the Golden Gate Expostion
 
Sept 26
Admiral Ambassador sales brochure
 
Sept 22
Mechanical Database updated: Home made American set added
 
Sept 21
Micro television website
 
Sept 18
Is Stratovision the Answer?
 
Sept 17
Color Television?
High-Gain Directional Array for Marginal TV Reception
Evolution of a TV Antenna
New TV Screen Offers Greater Contrast
WTMJ mobile van
Replica of Dutch CRT receiver for Baird 30 line standard
 
Sept 16
TV manufacturers in 1949
Television Master Antennas
Projection Television for Large Audiences
TV's Largest Parabolic Antenna
Operation TV
Baird theatre projector
 
Sept 15
Rauland projection CRT identified as being made by Baird in 1939
M & H Radio catalog - 1931
 
Sept 13
New acquisition: A T & T Model 2 Picturephone
More on Rauland projection CRT
 
Sept 12
More on Rauland projection CRT
Color Database updated: RCA CTC-4 added
 
Sept 11
Rauland projection CRT
u-Test-m drugstore tube tester
Col-R-Tel brochure
Marcella Latty, Television's First Star
 
Sept 9
More on restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
CBS receiver with color attachment plug
 
Sept 7
Restoration of Sparton 16A211 color set
 
Sept 4
Models used for television programming
Coast-to-Coast Radio Corp. 1931 catalog
 
Sept 3
More on RCA airplane test
Mechanical Database updated: British home made set added
NBC studio layout -1938
DuMont television system
 
Sept 2
New television antenna for Empire State Building
NBC Rebuilding Television Layout
 
Sept 1
More on RCA 1938 mobile production truck
More on Scophony
Kolorama Laboratories mechanical receiver
Farnsworth television demonstration in Los Angeles
National 1938 receiver
RCA T1 1 KW Transmitter (1938)
Future of Television Now Up to Public
More on Baird theater television
KFI station ID
More on W2XVT
More on W9XAL
More on W2XB/WRGB
General Electric at 1939 World's Fair
 
Aug 31
More on W9XZV
More on W2XAB
More on ATC 1939 medical television
More on Pittsburgh 1939 television demonstrations
1939 General Electric transmitter
More on Chicago 1939 television demonstrations
Earle Anthony stations
More on MInneapolis-St. Paul TV demonstration
More on Salt Lake City TV demonstration
 
Aug 30
W6XAO magazine articles
TV demonstration in Washington, DC
More on Communicating Systems, Inc. 1938 set
 
Aug 29
Latest report on 15GP22 rebuilding
ATC shop by television (1939)
More on RCA 1939 field camera

1939 TV demonstrations in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, New Orleans and Palm Beach, Florida

1939 Philco low power transmiter
More on W6XYZ
More on WLS TV demonstrations
 
Aug 28
More on Golden Gate Exposition
More on WBKB televison

1939 TV demonstrations in Oklahoma City, Chicago,, Illinois State Fair, Indiana State Fair, St. Louis, Seattle and Toronto

More on WTMJ Milwaukee
More on Rotary on W2XO
 
Aug 26
More on WLW television demonstration
More on KTSP television demonstration
 
Aug 22
More on the Philadelphia Wireless Technical Institute 1947 receiver
Modern iconoscope camera
Television makeup - NBC 1936 photo
Ad for French version of HMV 904
DuMont RA-101 dealer display card
 
Aug 21
1948 - Year of Television Progress
Microwaves for Relaying TV Programs
Television on Wheels
New acquisition: Sylvania Color Viewer
Cossor 1210 technical manual and Radio and Electrical Marketing supplement
Television exhibit at the San Franciso airport
Mallory Life article about W9XMT
 
Aug 19
How TV Will Take You To Conventions
 
Aug 16
Prewar Database updated: General Electric HM-185 added
 
Aug 15
An Electrostatic-Deflection Kinescope Unit, QST, March 1939
Using Electromagnetic-Deflection Cathode-Ray Tubes, QST, February 1939
1945 Advertisement for CBS color (courtesy of Wayne Bretl)
RCA 21CT55 brochure (courtesy of Wayne Bretl)
 
Aug 14
Building Television Receivers with Standard CRT Tubes, QST 1938-39
The Construction of Television Receivers, QST, April 1938
Monotron
Universal test unit using DuMont Phasmajector
Introduction to Modern Cathode-Ray Television Reception, QST, December 1937
Radio Amateurs in the Television Picture, QST, December 1937
 
Aug 12
Indianapolis Star articles about W9XMT

QST Looks at TV - 1944 (WABD New York)

New York to Boston microwave link (1945)
 
Aug 10
1940 QST article about long distance reception of WNBT.
 
Aug 9
New Amateur Television Records on 112 Mc, QST, December 1940
Two-Way Television Communication Inaugurated, QST, November 1940
A New Iconoscope for Amateur Television Cameras, QST, June 1940
A Design for Living - With Television, QST, March 1940
 
Aug 8
A Deflection and Video Chassis for Television Reception, QST, February 1940
A Receiver for the New Amateur Television System, QST, June 1940
A New Electronic Television Transmitting System for the Amateur, QST, May 1940
 
Aug 7
Mechanical Database updated: Western Visionette added
W9XBI station ID photo
More information on W9XBI/W9XMT Indianapolis
 
Aug 6
More information on W9XBI/W9XMT Indianapolis
Sony beam index tube
Don Lee studio - 1939
 
July 29
Pye 12C chassis
 
July 27
Admiral field sequential adapter
Early Experiments with Frequencies Above 30 Mhz (2011) - article by Bob Cooper
 
July 23
Mechanical Database updated: Hollis Baird Model 26/36 added
 
July 20
Prewar Database updated: Cossor 1210 (incomplete) added
 
July 19
KSD-TV Transmitter Supervisor Gordon Rustenmeyer
Photo of first CBS color network broadcast
Moscow Regional Center - history of the Moscow television center
 
July 1
1947 studio with DuMont cameras
 
June 29
Prewar Database updated: Safar 1939 prototype added
Mechanical Database updated: Baird Televisor, homemade French 30 line added
 
June 28
1937 article about Philco television
Prewar Database updated: RCA TRK-9/90 added
 
June 26
New acquisition: RCA CTC-7
 
June 23
Color Database updated: Westinghouse H840CK15 added
More on Apple/Uniray parts
 
June 22
Apple/Uniray parts
Color Database updated: Col-R-Tel added
 
June 20
Uniray prototype arrives, is actually a RCA CTC-7
Prewar Database updated: RCA TRK-12/120 added
 
June 18
More on the Uniray prototype
 
June 16
Follow Nick Williams' progress with the early RCA(?) color prototype on VideoKarma
More on the Uniray prototype
 
June 12
RCA 15 x 20 inch projection dot sequential prototype
Pictures of chassis of Viewtone VP-100
 
June 9
RCA Model 1
RCA demo to the FCC - single gun and tricolor tube sets - 1950
 
June 8
Article about WGSF-TV in the Newark Advocate (1963)
 
June 7
Total Rewind VCR Museum
Recording television
 
June 6
Daily Express kit
 
June 5
Sony Chromatron prototype sets
 
June 4
Color Database updated: Admiral C322C2 added
 
June 3
List of RCA CT-100 serial numbers and list of RCA 21CT55 serial numbers from Pete Deksnis
 
June 2
Uniray prototype color set coming to the museum
 
May 31
First zoom lens
 
May 29
Mt. Wilson in 1949
 
May 28
Picture of W9XAA television equipment
 
May 23
WJZ New York
KOTV Tulsa
 
May 20
New acquisition: Arvin chair
 
May 16
Prewar Database updated: HMV 900 added
 
May 15
HMV 907 restoration
Australia's TV Pioneers (Station 3UZ, Melbourne, 1929)
Muntz M20 advertisement
 
May 14
RCA Orthicon camera tube (1943)
Emerson 304 in 1941 Emerson flyer
Transvision 10 inch kit ads
 
May 13
Pictures of the TJ-48 van from the WGSF-TV website
Updated Abstract of Information - April 2011 Television Recordings - the Origins and Earliest Surviving Live TV Broadcast Recordings, by Bob Shagawat
Video of the 2011 convention by Richard Diehl
Postwar TV tuners
 
May 8
Hollis Baird brochure - Build Your Own Television Set at Home
New acquisitions: Bowers TC270-17 and Muntz M20
Prewar Database updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added
 
May 7
Bypassing the RF/IF Sections in Antique TV Sets (Wayne Abare)
 
May 5
New acquisitions: RCA Trinoscope and NTSC Drum Receiver
 
May 4
Videos and pictures from the 2011 convention
 
May 1
Color Database updated: Zenith SKF field sequential information changed. Homemade color projection set and homemade drum receiver added.
 
Apr 27
DuMont 183 added to convention auction
 
Apr 26

The auction will feature one of the rarest field sequential color sets - the Zenith SKF receiver. Check the auction highlights page for some of the sets this year.

Film clips about World War Two military television
 
Apr 25
Film taken off the screen of a CBS field sequential receiver
 
Apr 23
Pathe Newsreel segments about RCA/NBC (1936)
1946 newsreel clip about WW2 Block television
 
Apr 22
New aquisition: CBS 205 color set
 
Apr 20
Prewar Database updated: 2- RCA RR-359 (Russian Version) added
Philips GM-3150 Oscilloscope manual (Courtesy of Henk van Veen)
 
Apr 17
New aquisitions: RCA TD-1 camera pedestal and RCA transmitter control console
More on the Master Remote Control
 
Apr 13
Shortwave & Television Octocoils
Color Database updated: CBS 205 added
Prewar Database updated: Meisner 10-1153 kit with cabinet, DuMont 183 added
 
Apr 12
WRGB transmitting antenna
New York - Schenectady 1940 link
1940 article about the business side of television
 
Apr 11
Baird T18-C operating manual
 
Apr 10
Television Over a Light Beam
 
Apr 9
Belltone and Highbridge kits
Muntz Chromatron set
Unidentified French prewar set
Radio-Industrie 1939 set
Lyon-St. Clair (France) 1939 studio
Scophony theater projector
French prewar crt manufacture photos
French direct pickup lens disk camera
 
Apr 8
More on Grammont prewar sets
 
Apr 6
More pictures of prewar sets added to the Prewar Gallery (from Jon Evans site)
Mechanical Database updated: Western Visionette added
 
Mar 26
1947 American Television Institute ad
Transvision parts ad
1947 color television article
1956 Picturphone
RCA color theater system - 1947
 
Mar 20
Prewar Database updated: Dynatron TV-23 added
 
Mar 18
Prewar Database updated: Marconi 702 added
 
Mar 15
Color Database updated: GE 15CL100 moved from reported to verified
Color Database updated: RCA 21CT55 added
 
Mar 14
Video of Dalto color projection set
 
Mar 12
General Electric mechanical camera
Early 30s General Electric receiver
 
Mar 11
History of our Gray Research field sequential monitor
Empire Vacuum Products - CRT rebuilding plant
 
Mar 7
RCA RR-359 press photo
DuMont 183 press photo
 
Feb 28
Volunteers needed to help out at the convention
 
Feb 26
Marconi radio tunes TV sound
A Baird T-5 in Detroit in 1938
Press photo of 1946 GE color prototype
 
Feb 23
Screen pictures of working Philco 7 inch prewar set
 
Feb 22
Color Database updated: Sears Toshiba 16" added
 
Feb 21
Prewar Database updated: Pye 815 added
 
Feb 20
Prewar Database updated: Marconi 702 and 2 - RCA TRK-120s added
 
Feb 18
CRT substitution chart (from nostalgiaair.org's forums)
 
Feb 17
Tentative list of presentations and displays for the 2011 Convention
Prewar Database updated: Andrea 1-F-5 added
 
Feb 11
More on RCA color prototype
Color Database updated: RCA color prototype chassis added
 
Feb 10
Photos of RCA color prototype
 
Feb 6
Ekco 1945 advertisement
 
Feb 1
Jenkins drum receiver