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Early Electronic Television

Early Electronic Television Demonstrations

RCA rented equipment to radio stations and department stores around the country in 1939 to allow them to demonstrate television. Many of the below demonstrations used this equipment.

North America

  • Alleghany County, Pennsylvania (KDKA) (1939)
  • Boston, Massachusetts (1939)
  • Chicgo, Illinois (WMAQ) (1939)
  • Chicago, Illinois (Marshall Fields) (1939)
  • Cincinnati, Ohio (WLW) (1939)
  • Cincinnati, Ohio (Kolster Radio) (1939)
  • Craig, Colorado (1938)
  • Delta, Colorado (1938)
  • Farnsworth 1939-40 tour
  • Fort Collins, Colorado (1939)
  • Fort Wayne, Indiana (1939)
  • Franklin Institute - Philadelphia (1939)
  • Golden Gate Exposition - San Francisco (1939-40)
  • Illinois State Fair (WLS) (1939)
  • Indiana State Fair (WLS) (1939)
  • Indianapolis Y.M.C.A. (1938)
  • Indianapolis (1939)
  • Lawrence Technological University (1938)
  • Los Angeles (1938)
  • Minneapolis (KSTP) (1938)
  • New Orleans (1939)
  • Norman, Oklahoma (1939)
  • Northern Wisconsin District Fair (1940)
  • Oklahoma City (1939)
  • Oklahoma Television Tour (1944)
  • Palm Beach, Florida (1939)
  • Pittsburgh (1939)
  • Pittsburgh (KDKA) (1939)
  • Portland (1939)
  • Portland (1940)
  • RCA traveling exhibit (1939)
  • Reading, Pennsylvania Fair (1940)
  • Richmond, Virginia (1940)
  • St. Louis (KDYL) (1939)
  • Salt Lake City (1939)
  • Seattle (1939)
  • Texas State Fair (1940)
  • Toronto (1939)
  • Washington, DC (1939)
  • Washington, DC in airplane (1939)
  • Worlds Fair - New York (1939-40)

International

  • British demonstrations (1936)
  • Braunschweig, Germany (1938)
  • Bucharest, Romania (1938)
  • Montevideo, Uruguay (1943)
  • Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyp (1940)

 


 
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