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Changes and Additions to the Site

 
 
   
 Sept 22  W6XAO screen shot - 1937 
   
 Sept 21  Photos from Harvey Gall - KTLA
   
 Sept 17  WCFL Transmitter
   
 Sept 13  Jenkins direct pickup camera
   Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: CBS 205 added
   W2XCD Passaic, NJ
   
 Sept 5 Color page updated to add information on introduction of color in Britain and Europe, including videos about the history of NTSC, PAL and SECAM
   
 Sept 1 More on the Raytheon 15 inch color set
   
 Aug 30 Hilliard Farmers Market - at the Museum Tuesday, September 9, 4-7 PM
   
 Aug 28  Admiral toy studio
   
 Aug 26  Catalina Island microwave relay (1946)
   
 Aug 24  Philips EL5770 projector
   
 Aug 21  How to Build the S & I Television Receiver
   
 Aug 15  More on Farnsworth-Kemper receiver
   
 Aug 11  GEC BT-3701
   John Logie Baird field sequential system (1947)
   
 Aug 5 Ludwig von Drake signs  
   
 Aug 2  KE2XDR - DuMont experimental color station
   
July 31 First broadcast - W9XZV Chicago
  The Magic of Making Picture Tubes
   
July 29 James Hawes - How Col-R-Tel Works
   
July 27 1966 Picturephone prototype
  RCA field sequential prototype (1941)
  Lier Radio and Television Store
  Surviving Color Database Summary updated: Sparton 16A211 added
   
July 24 First Natioal Television 1933 mailer
  W9IQG amateur TV operator
   
July 22 YouTube video of a Western Visionette working
  Ohio Magazine article: 5 Reasons to Visit Our 2024-25 Best Hometowns
  New acquisition: RCA TT-5 dealer display
   
July 20 June, 2025 Newsletter available to all, July newsletter available to members
  July oline meeting of the Early Televisio Museum Community - July 26 at 8 PM EDT
  Fall Swapmeet and Sweepstakes drawing - October 18 10-2 at the museum.
  Transvision FSM ad
   
July 19 Don Lee 1937 kit - Allied Radio ad
  Baird's early Experiments at Queens Arcade, Hastings 1923 or 24
  Pye demonstration in Australia - 1949
   
july 13 List of North American radio and TV museums
  TV demonstration - Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyp (1940)
  Texas Broadcast Museum Monthly Mini-Magazine
   
July 12 Lawrence Technological University TV demonstration (1938)
  Milton Stern mechanical system
   
July 8 Britain’s first TV set is one of the stars of our collection - Science and Media Museum
   
July 5 IEEE article: This 1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once
  New acquisition: Gardner TV Colorgard
  Dumont Duoscopic at the Smithsonian
   
July 4 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: 2 - RCA TRK-12s added
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Western Visionette added
   
June 30 Plew Model 2 mechanical scanner
   
June 29 RCA 1940 Sales Brochure - courtesy of Jim Carlyle, WION Radio, Ionia MI.
   
June 28 New acquisition: Westinghouse H840CK15 - Canadian version
  New acquisitions: DuMont RA-110-2-A and Zenith H3467R
  1949 RCA 3 tube color camera
   
June 26 1939 list of American CRTs - table re-creted by Richard Fernandez to make it more readable
  WDAF (Kansas City) mobile production vehicle
   
June 25 W7BDZ Butte, MT
   
June 20 Japanese 1937 mobile production vans
   
June 17 Safar RTD-40 (1939)
  Experimental Television in Malasia (1939)
  Kalman Tihanyi
  Return Beam Vidicon
   
June 16 Radiomarelli RV-175 (1938)
   
June 15 Scam alert: Chris Moore
  Robert Neuhauser - History of Lancaster camera tubes
   
June 13 16 Inch Tube Modernizes 10 Inch Set
  Samuel Curtis Radio-Television Institute (Boston)
  Jaarbeurs Iconoscope (Netherlands, 1938)
  Restoration of an Andrea 2-F-12 cabinet
   
June 10 Philco 10TK (1939)
  Tour Dupont Circle building being celebrated as ‘the birthplace of television - WTOP Video (courtesy of John Pinckney)
   
June 8 Television receiver specifications, 1939
  1936 RCA Prototype
  Television From Grammophone Record
   
June 1 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: RCA TRK-5 added
  Moscow Television and Radio Center in Shabolovka, 1939
  2025 Convention report
  New acquisition: Garod 15TZ6
   
May 16 Pye field sequential demonstration (1949)
   
May 13 The Glass Eye Invasion —Television Sets Invade the Midcentury Home - A New Book by Steve Kosareff
   
May 12 Our new display: Vintage Video Games
  RCA RR-359 at the NHK Museum
   
May 10

New Display: Sony Chromatron and JVC TM-L450TU LCCS Video Monitor/Receiver
   
April 29 New acquisition: Raytheon 7DX22P
   
April 21 Coin operated TV sets
   
April 17 Video of a restored HMV 905 prewar set
   
April 10 Pilot TV-37 advertisements
   
April 8 New acquisition: General Electric GM-295
  New acquisition: Sylvania Slide Theater
   
April 4 Motorola color ad
  Motorola B & W ads
   
April 3 Sony micro-TV
   
Mar 31 This Retro Television Museum In Ohio Will Transport You Straight To The 1920s
   
Mar 30 Gernsback binocular TV
   
Mar 26 Philco prototype binocular TV
  TV Amateur George Palmer Received His Own Color Picture
  George Palmer, TV DX
  1928 Pilot mechanical set (36 lines)
  Video of images from W2XB shows
   
Mar 15 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated; General Electric GM-295 added
  Commercial produced by Camille Matheny, Hilliard Bradley HS junior
   
Mar 12 Television in an airplane - A. J. Carter, WCFL
  Discounts at local Hilliard busineses at the Convention
   
Mar 10 W1XAV studio - 1931
   
Mar 9 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated; General Electric HM-171 added
   
Mar 4 New acquisition: RCA CTC7 Abington
  Milton Bursma and the Bursma Radio Supply Co.
   
Mar 1 New acquisiton: RCA CTC-5 Asbury
   
Feb 26 Television Comes to Japan
  Televison in an airplane - 1964
  CDR rotor control box
   
Feb 25 Color Television - Its Status Today and a Look Into the Future - courtesy of Paul Garbarczyk
  Sylvania Color Slide Studio
  Coming to the Museum soon - Sony Chromaton KV-7010U and JVC TM-L450TU LCCS Video Monitor/Receiver
   
Feb 15 1949 Westinghouse commercial video
  W6XAH studio and tower
   
Feb 11 RCA film chain -1936
  Food trucks for the convention, and information on Saturday dinner
   
Feb 5 1940 General Electric Worlds Fair brochure
   
Feb 3 Charlina Johnson, a contributor to our monthly online meeting, lost her home in the Altadena file. Her son has started a GoFundMe account to help her rebuild. Please contribute if you can.
   
Feb 2 Saving flyback transformers
  Zenith Phonevision in Hartford, CT
   
Jan 26 More on the ATC Kinet
   
Jan 22 2025 Convention Information
  Peck mechanical color system - 1935
   
Jan 19 1930 Western lens disk prototype
  WMAL test of the CTI color system
  Step Inside the Early Television Museum in Hilliard, OH. - Ohio Magazine video
  Prewar broadcasts from J2PQ Tokyo
   
Jan 14 1954 RCA salesman filmstrip with the CT-100
   
Jan 11 ATC iconoscope camera
   
Jan 8 A Major New Museum Acquistion - ATC Kinet
   
Jan 4, 2025 2025 Convention to be held May 2-4 at the museum in Hilliard
   
Dec 31 WMAL-TV Baltimore SKF broadcast
   
Dec 30 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 added
  1935 broadcasting by Melbourne stations 3UZ and 3DB
   
Dec 28 Farnsworth's first camera
  Young Amateur Who Discovered Television Without Use of Films Just "Guessed" Idea
   
Dec 27 The quest to save the world’s largest CRT TV from destruction
  Australian mechanical broadcasting
  Another TV set in a car
   
Dec 7 History of Early Television in Germany, by Wolfgang Lill
   
Nov 29 Gray Research monitor in medical television
  RCA single vidicon color camera
   
Nov 28 Jenkins camera at Coyne Electrical School
  Television in Three Dimensions
   
Nov 27 This Week in Hilton History - article about television in the Roosevelt Hotel
   
Nov 23 Farnsworth at the Franklin Institute
  Timer Television portable set
   
Nov 18 Color TV at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
   
Nov 17 Display of Ardenne electronic television
  Welding a 15GP22
   
Nov 12 Pye broadcast equipment history
   
Nov 2 Museum screens videos
   
O ct 24 Interior of the Emitron 1936 camera
  Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated; Westinghouse WRT-703 added
   
Oct 22 Article in IEEE Spectrum about the lucite TRK-12 at the 1939 Worlds Fair
   
Oct 18 More on A. C. Neilsen Recordimeter
   
Sept 26 Glare Reducing Filters
   
Sept 23 September Newsletter now available to members, August Newsletter available to all
   
Sept 22 Where is Television in France? (1941 article)
   
Sept 21 Funkturm Berlin - 180 line transmitter
   
Sept 19 Website navigation and menu structure changed
   
Sept 15 Television Reception - Manfred von Ardenne (courtesy of Ingo Kubbe)
  Television and Consumer Electronics, January 2006 - Letter about British NTSC experiments
   
Sept 14 GEC 405 line NTSC prototype
  Broadcast Engineering Museum
   
Sept 12 Piet's Home-built TV or How Philips developed Television
   
Sept 11 More on WILL Radio
   
Sept 7 WILL Radio
   
Sept 5 Baird electronic color system - projection set
   
Sept 1 Members Only section added
  1945 TV studio
   
Aug 31 More on GE Octagon from Berkely, CA
   
Aug 7 Bell Canada Remote Van
   
July 28 New acquisition: A. C. Neilsen Recordimeter
   
July 27 Fedtro remote control
  Stromberg-Carlson 1939 TV demonstration in St. Louis
   
July 25 Australia's First Licenced TV Station
  Now Advertisers Speak - Pick Color Television as an Advertising Medium
   
July 15 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21CT55 added
   
July 13 Hospix TV advertisement
   
June 25 German 3D television
   
June 20 The museum's new Philco Predicta display
   
June 19 Jenkins mechanical TV schematic diagrams
  Mechanical TV schematic diagrams
  European mechanical stations
  Junior TV Camera
   
June 17 RCA 1963 New Vista "Trent" model TV set wanted for new Henry Ford museum display at the Jackson House
   
June 7 Coin-A-Matic
  Bus station coin TV
   
June 5 CRT power hoist installed
   
June 4 Arvin 15 inch color set
   
June 3 1940 Republican Convention
  Jenkins TV cameras
   
May 19 A West Coast Western Visionette?
  Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: 80 line Visionette added
   
May 17 Westinghouse H840CK15 color set at Vogt auction in Texas
   
May 13 Sanabria demonstration, May Company, Cleveland
   
May 10 Powertenna "whole house" antenna
  Regal 10 inch
   
April 23 TV Guide issues about CBS color
  TV Guide issues about NTSC color
   
April 8 The CBS SKF color camera in Germany in 1950-51
   
April 7 Another fraud artist responding to our classifieds
   
Mar 29 Jenkins' scrapbook - articles he clipped and pasted in his scrapbook
  JOAK - mechanical station in Tokyo
  Prewar station in Tokyo
  Prewar station in Malasia ?
   
Mar 17 Dailey Paskman - WGBS television pioneer
   
Mar 16 Wired Television Tried in New York
   
Mar 15

Auction of the collection of Eric Stumpf

Friday, March 15 at 5:00 PM. Ending Sunday, March 24 at 5:00 PM

Wiliam Smith Auctions
   
Mar 14 Dynamic Television Associates 1947 kit
  South African DX
  Bosch Hall 1936 kit
   
Mar 3 Articles from The Valve Museum
  Hughes Research Laboratories 3D CRT
   
Feb 27 Zenith "Lazy Bones" remote control
  Air Force Human Resources Laboratory CRT
   
Feb 20 More on prewar TV in Uruguay
  COARA Meeting - March 20, 2024, 7 PM
   
Feb 19 Telemeter Toronto experiment ads and newspaper clippings
   
Feb 18 The Museum has received a large number of documents that were owned by Jenkins. You can see them here.
   
Feb 10 YouTube video of Farnsworth in the late 30s
   
Feb 7 WBKB during World War Two
  Waseda University Mechanical Television
   
Feb 5 First TV Picture Ever Filmed
   
Feb 1 St. Louis (KDYL) television demonstration (1939)
   
Jan 27 Panasonic Flat Screen Prototype (1969)
   
Jan 20 Souvenir token from the 1939 TV demonstration in Salt Lake City
   
Jan 18 First in Australia - Melbourne, Australia
   
Jan 16 WDTV DuMont Telecruiser
   
Jan 13 Transvision 27 inch set
   
Jan 6 DeForest/Sanabria Television
   
Jan 3,2024 Polish mechanical TV station
   
Dec 24 New acquisition: Crosley color wheel set
  Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: Crosley color wheel set
  Website being updated to improve performance on mobile devices
   
Dec 1 1930 Farnsworth-Kemper TV set
   
Nov 13 Baird model C inside
   
Nov 11 Surviving Mechanical Set Database Summary updated: Hollis Baird 25/35 receiver added
  DuMont 1940 program schedule
   
Nov 5 Television of Sports Events Still Far Off - W2XBS 1939
  Pictures on Radio - W2XD, 1931
  Wilbur Jerman's Phototube - W7XAO, 1929
   
Nov 2 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: RCA 21-CT-55 and Model 5 added
   
Oct 29 W1XAY Program Schedule - 1928
  Pals, Seen as Well as Heard - W6XAO 1940
  Musical Play by Television Voted Success - W9XAO 1931
   
Oct 25 W2XCP Clifton, New Jersey
  New shelves in our warehouse area
   
Oct 11 Surviving Early Electronic Set Database Summary updated: Meissner 10-1153 Kit in cabinet added
   
Oct 9 Surviving Early Color Set Database Summary updated: 2 - Westinghouse H840CK15 added
   
Sept 28 Our parking lot has now been repaved!
   
Sept 12 John Logie Baird's Original Camera
   
Sept 9 Tune in to early TV transmission in Queensland, Australia
   
Sept 1 The Coolest Hidden Wonder in Ohio
   

 

 


 
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