Television

The box, not the programmes. Five men demonstrated working apparatus between 1925 and 1927 and this archive crowns none of them, preferring to show what each actually did: a ventriloquist dummy at thirty-two lines in a Soho attic, a model windmill transmitted to a Washington rooftop with the Navy watching, a single straight line in a San Francisco laboratory, and a Japanese katakana character at forty lines on a cathode ray tube. After that it follows the object: the veneered console that was furniture before it was electronics, the tube that made the cabinet deep, the spinning disc that lost, the factories that moved from America to Japan to Korea to China, the shops where crowds watched through the window, the repairmen with their valve caddies, and the lead-heavy glass that makes a dead set difficult to throw away. A mechanical colour system was the legal American standard for fourteen months, and almost nobody remembers it.

A chronological documentary of 1,085 moments spanning 1884–2026 on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20

Eras

Mechanical TV, The mechanical era as hardware. Nipkow discs, mirror drums, the Televisor, radiovision kits, neon lamps and magnifying lenses. This is the smallest facet in the archive and that is a measured fact rather than a gap: about sixty genuinely mechanical files exist on Wikimedia Commons in total. It survives on film chiefly through the people who still build working thirty-line receivers today.
Laboratories, Where the hardware was invented and tested. Baird at Frith Street and the Royal Institution, Farnsworth at 202 Green Street in San Francisco, Zworykin at Camden, Takayanagi at Hamamatsu, Rosing, Bell Labs, the University of Illinois plasma work, prototype rigs and the inventors with their apparatus. Thin here by measurement rather than neglect: television patent drawings are scarce on Wikimedia Commons, whose patent category is mostly aeroplanes and machinery.
Tubes, Cathode ray tubes as objects and as components: bare tubes, cutaways, electron guns, shadow masks and aperture grilles, phosphor screens, leaded funnels, projection tubes, the flat tube in a pocket television, and the last enormous direct-view screens. Also the receiving valves that sat in a chassis, which is a narrower category than it sounds, since the wider vacuum tube world is mostly radar, X-rays and hi-fi.
Panels, Flat display hardware. Plasma cells and panel cutaways, liquid crystal layers, backlights from fluorescent tubes to light emitting diodes, organic substrates, rear projection engines and micromirror arrays, curved and rollable screens. Plasma began in 1964 as a computer terminal part with inherent memory, forty years before it reached a living room and lost.
Cabinets, The set as furniture and as sculpture. Veneered consoles with doors that closed, Bakelite table sets, moulded plastic shells, Soviet cabinets, the slim panel hung on a wall. For most of the century the cabinet was the part of a television anyone actually looked at, and it changed faster than the electronics behind it. Model designations here are often unverified, so these are captioned by what is visible.
Showrooms, Where sets were sold and watched in public. Shop windows with crowds outside, department store television departments, rental showrooms, appliance dealers, Soviet electronics counters, walls of identical screens in a warehouse store, and trade fairs. Sets were bought, rented and watched collectively long before most households owned one.
Factories, Production lines and plant interiors: glass forming, frit sealing, phosphor screening, gun mounting, evacuation, ageing racks, chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, and the panel cleanrooms that replaced all of it. The story runs from America and Europe to Japan, then Korea, then China, and it is told here in Russian, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese sources as well as English, because an English search alone ends it in Japan in 1985.
Living Rooms, The set in domestic use, as an object in a room. Families around a console, the neighbour's house and the pub, rooftop aerials, remote controls, folding trays, and the same scene in Soviet, Japanese, British, American, Chinese and Indian homes. A television is a piece of furniture before it is anything else, and the room shows how it was used.
Repair, The service trade as objects and people: repairmen with valve caddies, tube testers, workshop benches, oscilloscopes, service manuals and schematics, a chassis pulled out onto the living room floor, and the modern restoration bench. For decades a television was a repairable appliance with an entire trade behind it, and that trade has an unusually strong presence on film today.
Scrapyards, The afterlife. Dumped sets at the kerb, stockpiles of cathode ray glass, recycling floors, electronic waste grounds, museum stores and conservation benches, collector shelves of professional monitors, and smashed tubes. A twelve inch tube holds about half a kilogram of lead and a thirty-two inch one up to three, with the funnel glass a fifth to a quarter lead oxide, which is why a dead set is a disposal problem rather than rubbish.

1884 - Disco di nipkow per televisore meccanico. Disco di Nipkow in alluminio a spirale di fori (ovvero i fori sono disposti a spirale in prossimità del bordo più esterno). Ha quattro razze con una superficie verniciata di nero. Funzione Disco utilizzato per analizzare e riprodurre le immagini in un televisore meccanico Fracarro.
1885 - Windmill Tower, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. Reports differ on whether the Telephane was successfully implemented. The first television broadcast in Australia took place on 30 September 1929 at the Menzies Hotel in Melbourne, using the electro-mechanical Radiovision system. Other transmissions took place in the city over the next few weeks.
1897 - Cathode Rays Figure 1. Figure 1 from J. J. Thomson's paper Cathode Rays, published in 1897. Thomson's work established that cathode rays were streams of particles, which is the physics every later picture tube depended on.
1897 - Cathode Rays Figure 4. Figure 4 from Thomson's 1897 paper Cathode Rays. The apparatus measures how far a beam bends under a magnetic field, the same effect a deflection yoke later exploited to paint a picture. It is a published figure rather than a photograph.
1897 - JJ Thomson exp2. A diagram of Thomson's 1897 cathode ray experiment, showing the ray in blue being bent by an electric field in yellow. Deflecting a beam under electrical control is the single effect every picture tube depends on, so this experiment is the direct ancestor of the television screen.
1900 - Televisón de los 1900. A model of a television of the 1900s, built to show the arrangement that followed Nipkow's invention of the scanning disc. Nipkow patented the disc in 1884, decades before anyone transmitted a moving picture with one.
1908 - Phantoscope charles francis jenkins. The Phantoscope and a phantoscope picture roll, Jenkins's early motion picture apparatus. Jenkins came to television from film projection, which is why his approach was built around mechanically moving images rather than electronics.
1915 - Radio equipment - Indiana State Museum - DSC00410. Early radio and television equipment, Indiana State Museum, 650 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Left to right: 1915 De Forest Audion vacuum tube was the first device which could amplify electrical signals, creating the field of electronics. 1923 Crosley "Pup" radio; this single tube receiver was manufactured in Cincinatti.
1918 - MC Macau hotel room 鷺環海天度假酒店 Grand Coloane Resort 1918 Estrada de Hac Sa 路環黑沙馬路 May 2017 Lnv2. A flat panel television in a hotel room at the Grand Coloane Resort on Hac Sa Road, Coloane, Macau, photographed in May 2017. Hotel rooms were among the first places most people encountered a wall mounted panel, because hotels replaced their sets faster than households did. The 1918 in the address is a street number and not a date.
1923 - Vladimir Zworykin and historic TV tubes. Zworykin standing in front of a display of some of the historic television tubes he invented. Working at Westinghouse and RCA laboratories from 1923 through the 1940s, Zworykin invented the first successful electronic-scan television systems, including the widely used iconoscope camera tube.
1923 - Charles Francis Jenkins and G. E. Arneman. Charles Francis Jenkins with G. E. Arneman arriving at Langley Field, where Jenkins lectured the Army Tactical School in January 1923. Jenkins courted military interest early, and US Navy representatives were present at his public demonstration of radio transmitted images in June 1925.
1924 - Dr. David Todd & C.F. Jenkins, 8-21-24 LOC npcc.11973. Dr David Todd and Charles Francis Jenkins, seated in front, photographed in August 1924 for the National Photo Company. Jenkins was working towards the public demonstration he gave in June 1925, when he transmitted the silhouette of a model windmill by radio.
1925 - 1925 Events Collage V 1.0. Clockwise: Tri-State tornado outbreak Sheikh Said rebellion Mein Kampf Great Syrian Revolt Incident at Petrich St. Nedelya Church assault 1925 Dali earthquake First working television system / John Logie Baird.
1925 - Baird TV 1926a. Television receiving apparatus used by John Logie Baird in the demonstration he gave to members of the Royal Institution. That demonstration, on 26 January 1926, was Baird's first public showing, distinct from the private achievement of 2 October 1925 when he first got a recognisable image of Stooky Bill at 32 lines. Most accounts merge the two events.
1925 - John Logie Baird and Stooky Bill. British inventor John Logie Baird and his first publicly demonstrated television system, with which he transmitted moving pictures March 25, 1925 at the London department store Selfridges. This was one of the first demonstrations of television technology. The selenium photoelectric tubes he used had such low sensitivity that human faces could not be televised due to their low contrast.
1925 - John Logie Baird and television receiver. Scottish television pioneer John Logie Baird (left) and his television receiver. This was one of the world's first television systems, with which Baird demonstrated transmission of moving images in 1925. The transmitter consisted of a spinning disk with 30 lenses in it which focused light from a spot on the image onto a selenium photoelectric cell.
1925 - C.F. Jenkins & J.W. Robinson, 6-15-25. Charles Francis Jenkins with J. W. Robinson, photographed on 13 June 1925, the day Jenkins publicly demonstrated the transmission of moving images by radio. He sent the silhouette of a model Dutch windmill turned by an electric fan from the Naval Radio Station at Bellevue to his rooftop on Connecticut Avenue, with US Navy representatives present.
1925 - Motion pictures by radio coming soon. Motion pictures by radio is very near, predicts C. Francis Jenkins,. Francis Jenkins, who has designed this small radio- vision receiving set for use in the homes. It is only a few inches square and is attached to the regular radio receiving set. A miniature motion picture screen is placed on the wall of your home, as shown in this photo.
1925 - Charles Francis Jenkins, inventor, 1925. The inventor Charles Francis Jenkins, photographed in 1925 on a glass plate negative. Jenkins demonstrated radio transmitted moving images publicly on 13 June 1925, seven months before Baird's public demonstration, a fact British accounts routinely leave out.
1925 - The JLB Digital Archive - In 1925 Robert Shaw was 'Televised' by John Logie Baird. On Robert Shaw being televised by Baird in 1925. The specific claim Baird holds up best is tonal gradation, meaning grey values rather than black-and-white silhouettes, which is the thing Jenkins shadow images did not have.
1926 - Baird TV 1926b. A second view of the receiving apparatus Baird used before members of the Royal Institution in January 1926. The receiver is an assembly of exposed mechanism rather than a cabinet, because at this stage nothing about the equipment was intended for a domestic room.
1926 - Baird TV 1926c. Baird's Royal Institution receiving apparatus of 1926 photographed from another angle, showing the scanning mechanism and its drive. The picture was assembled by a perforated disc spinning in front of a lamp whose brightness varied with the signal.
1926 - Baird TV 1926d. Further receiving apparatus from Baird's 1926 demonstration to the Royal Institution. The audience were scientists rather than the public, and the equipment was set up to be examined at close range rather than merely watched.
1926 - Baird TV 1926e. The last of the series showing the apparatus Baird used at the Royal Institution in January 1926. Baird's mechanical system produced a 32 line image, fewer than the 40 lines Takayanagi displayed on a cathode ray tube in Tokyo in December of the same year.
1927 - Francis Jankins [i.e. Charles Francis Jenkins] qui transmet par radio des cartes géographiques renseignant. Sujet : Jenkins, Charles Francis (1867-1934) -- Portraits Portraits -- 1914-1945 Référence bibliographique : Rol, 118186 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : Pho20Rol Image de presse Couverture :.. avril 1927 Langue : français.
1927 - Mechanical television receiver 1927 - Indiana State Museum. A prototype mechanical television receiver built by Morris VanWay for RCA in 1927. The video signal from a receiver was applied to the neon bulb at top, and it was viewed through holes in the spinning disk (Nipkow disk) at rear, which created the scan lines, resulting in a dim orange monocolor image about one inch square. Before modern electronic scan television systems were developed around World War 2, the first television systems used this mechanical scan technology.
1928 - Baird Television Receiver, 1928. A Baird receiver for home use, photographed in 1928 with Captain O. G. Hutchinson, one of Baird's associates, pointing at the viewing aperture. The picture appeared in that small opening rather than on a screen as later understood.
1928 - Early Television System Diagram. Diagram of an early mechanical-scan television system. This technology was used in the first experimental television broadcasting stations in the 1920s and 1930s, before it was replaced by modern electronic-scan television systems in the 1940s.
1928 - Gernsback Television 1928. Hugo Gernsback watching television in his Manhattan apartment in August 1928. The picture is 1.5 inches square. This low definition image has 48 scan lines at 7.5 frames per second.
1928 - Radio Listeners Guide Fall 1928 Cover. The cover of the Radio Listeners' Guide and Call Book for November 1928, whose artwork imagines what television would become. It is an artist's projection from a moment when actual receivers showed a postage stamp sized image built from 30 scanning lines.
1928 - Radio News Apr 1928 pg1098. Television Comes to the Home Radio News, April 1928. Volume 9 Number 10. Published by Experimenter Publishing, New York, NY Editor-in-Chief and Publisher: Hugo Gernsback Image:Radio News Apr 1928 pg1098.png Image:Radio News Apr 1928 pg1099.png Image:Radio News Apr 1928 pg1100.png The page numbers were on an annual basis, not per issue.
1928 - Radio News Nov 1928 Cover. Hugo Gernsback in his Manhattan apartment is watching a television broadcast from his WRNY station in August 1928. The 1.5 inch square picture is low definition; 48 scan lines at 7.5 frames per second. Hugo is holding the manual synchronization control.
1928 - Radio News Nov 1928 pg422. How to Make Your Own Television Receiver. Experimenter Publishing's WRNY began transmitting experimental television in August 1928 to viewers in New York City. Most viewers built their own set.
1928 - Radio News Nov 1928 pg423. A page from Radio News of November 1928 setting out how to build a television receiver at home. The magazine assumed a reader competent with a soldering iron, because in 1928 there was almost nothing to buy ready made.
1928 - Radio News Sep 1928 Cover. The ideal television of the future. The realistic television of 1928 can be seen on the November cover Image:Radio News Nov 1928 Cover.jpg. These early experimental televisions could not maintain synchronization with the camera.
1928 - Science and Invention Nov 1928 pg618. Instructions for building a television receiver, published in Science and Invention for November 1928. The magazine expected readers to construct the apparatus themselves, because in 1928 there was practically nothing available to buy ready made.
1928 - Science and Invention Television 1928. A woman watching an early homemade experimental mechanical television receiver in 1928, from Hugo Gernsback's magazine Science and Invention. During the 1920s some radio stations began broadcasting experimental television programs, which could be viewed by mechanical "televisor" receivers like this one. The video signal from the receiver (left) is applied to a neon lamp in the viewer (right).
1928 - Ernst Alexanderson with television receiver, 1928 NYT photo. Ernst Alexanderson operating a receiver in 1928, with the picture appearing in the small aperture at the top of the cabinet. The original caption points out the aperture, because a reader in 1928 would not have known where to look.
1928 - Television Schematic 1928. A schematic published in 1928 under the heading How to Make Your Own Television Receiver. Experimenter Publishing's station WRNY began experimental transmissions to New York viewers in August 1928, and readers were expected to build the receiving apparatus themselves from plans like this one.
1928 - Charles Francis Jenkins. 13 June 1925, seven months before Baird's public demonstration. He transmitted a model Dutch windmill turned by an electric fan, with US Navy representatives present. British accounts of television's invention routinely omit him.
1928 - First television broadcast NBC. Publicity photo National Broadcasting Company (NBC) issued for their 30th anniversary in 1956. The photo depicts their work in television beginning in 1928. The Felix the Cat doll shown in the photo was used by the company for over a decade beginning with mechanical television in 1928 and continued to be used to help develop electronic television.
1928 - Group. Charles Francis Jenkins (2nd from left) showing his Mirror Drum Television Receiver. Charles Francis Jenkins, second from left, showing his mirror drum television receiver to a group. A mirror drum used angled mirrors around a rotating cylinder instead of a perforated disc, giving a brighter picture for the same scanning rate.
1928 - Identified! (Group. Charles Francis Jenkins (2nd from left) showing his Mirror Drum Television Receiver) (LOC). Charles Francis Jenkins, second from left, demonstrating his mirror drum television receiver to a group, photographed by Harris and Ewing. The mirror drum used angled mirrors on a spinning cylinder in place of a perforated disc.
1928 - John Logie Baird, negative, 1928 (Lafayette; NPG x49619). John Logie Baird photographed by Lafayette on a whole plate film negative in March 1928. 1928 was the year Baird transmitted a picture across the Atlantic from London to Hartsdale, though the exact date of that transmission is not established.
1928 - Phonovision record 1928. A Phonovision record of 1928, Baird's attempt to store a 30 line television picture on a gramophone disc. Because the mechanical signal was slow enough to fit within audio bandwidth, it could be cut to a record, making these among the earliest recordings of a television image.
1928 - Radio News Sep 1928 pg222. The Scanning Disc, Television's Canvas Radio News, September 1928. Volume 10 Number 3. Published by Experimenter Publishing, New York, NY Editor-in-Chief and Publisher: Hugo Gernsback Table of Contents Image:Radio News Sep 1928 pg194.png The page numbers were on an annual basis, not per issue.
1929 - Vladimir Zworykin and a cathode ray tube, 1929 NYT. Vladimir Zworykin with the cathode ray tube he developed for receiving television pictures, photographed for the press in 1929. The original caption claims the tube greatly simplifies reception, which was the commercial argument that eventually carried electronic television over the mechanical systems.
1929 - Zworykin kinescope 1929. Vladimir Zworykin with the kinescope, the receiving tube he developed at Westinghouse and later RCA. Zworykin's tubes gave RCA the electronic system that displaced mechanical scanning, though the patent priority fight with Farnsworth ran for years. The photograph is dated 1934 in the archive record.
1929 - Baird television, 1929. A Baird receiver of 1929, from the period when the BBC was transmitting 30 line pictures using Baird's mechanical system. The image was built up by a spinning disc pierced with a spiral of holes rather than by a tube.
1930 - Earle Rogers Co., Wheeling's quality furniture store, 12th and Main Sts., Wheeling, W. Va. The Earle Rogers Company furniture store at 12th and Main Streets in Wheeling, West Virginia. Television was sold through furniture dealers before it was sold through electronics shops, because the set was bought as a piece of furniture.
1930 - Philips glasfabrieken. Philips glass factories, from the Eye Filmmuseum. Making your own glass envelopes is what made Philips independent of American suppliers.
1930 - N.V. Philips gloeilampenfabrieken. Philips lamp works filmed by the company, held by the Eye Filmmuseum. The lamp factory is the parent of the tube factory: same glass working, same vacuum, same getter chemistry.
1930 - Retroprojecteur-schema. Ce schéma très simplifié figure comment est constitué un téléviseur de type rétroprojecteur. Ce principe est similaire à celui des premiers téléviseurs à rétro-projection apparus durant les années 1930.
1930 - Televisore meccanico, a disco di Nipkow - Baird Televisor.. È composto da un piano con quattro piedi in metallo su cui sono fissati il motore elettrico, lo zoccolo per la lampada al Neon (mancante), il visore con lenti, un potenziometro variabile e una bobina. Il motore elettrico è provvisto di un albero su cui è calettato un disco di Nipkow in alluminio a spirale di 30 fori. Davanti al motore è presente un meccanismo regolabile per il sincronismo delle immagini ricevute.
1930 - Frank Gray Television. Frank Gray peering into a mechanical television device at Bell Labs in 1930. Bell Labs ran a serious television programme in parallel with the individual inventors, and Gray's work on scanning fed into later electronic systems.
1930 - Televisore meccanico, a disco di Nipkow - Baird Televisor.. A mechanical television built on a metal footed plate carrying the drive motor, the socket for the neon lamp which is now missing, a lens viewer and a variable potentiometer, in the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan. The neon lamp is the part that made the picture: it glowed brighter or dimmer with the signal while the disc scanned across it.
1930-09 - 【TBSスパークル】1930年9月14日高柳式テレビジョン一般公開（昭和5年）. A television broadcaster archive clip dated 14 September 1930, the public showing of the Takayanagi system. Takayanagi is systematically under-credited in Western accounts, and the source itself says he failed to gain much recognition in the West.
1931 - Pete the Fish Fry King New Orleans 1931 MLK - Interior Shelves. The interior of Pete the Fish Fry King, a bar and restaurant in Central City, New Orleans, with a television among the shelves. A bar set is watched communally and is chosen for where it can be seen from, not for how it looks.
1931 - Flying spot scanner 1931. A flying-spot scanner, an early type of television camera used in mechanical-scan television systems during the 1930s with its developer Ulises Armand Sanabria. During the 1930s, before modern electronic-scan television broadcasting began after World War 2, hundreds of experimental stations broadcast television using this low-resolution mechanical technique. This device is designed to take "head shots" of performers talking or singing.
1931 - Zworykin1931iconoscope. First diagram of an iconoscope television camera tube, one of the earliest practical video camera tubes, invented by Vladimir Zworykin, from his 1931 US patent. Zworykin patented the tube for use as an ultraviolet video microscope, but applied it to the new expanding technology of television.
1931 - Flying spot scanner television studio 1931. Drawing of an early television studio in the 1930s using mechanical flying spot scanner television cameras, owned by the Jenkins Television Co. During the 1920s and 30s, before modern electronic-scanning television systems debuted around 1940, dozens of experimental stations broadcast television programs using mechanical scanning technology. Instead of a television camera that recorded an image, a powerful light source called a "flying spot scanner" (bottom) projects a moving spot of intense light onto the subject (top) in the darkened studio.
1931 - John Logie Baird and mechanical television. John Logie Baird showing his mechanical scanning television system in 1931. By this date the BBC was transmitting 30 line pictures using Baird's system, which remained in service until electronic television replaced it in 1937.
1931 - Spinning-disk television receiver 1931. An early television receiver from 1931, using a spinning disk with holes to display the image. It was used with experimental mechanical-scan television programs broadcast by the first experimental TV stations in the 1920s - 30s. It consists of a homebuilt 6 tube video receiver unit (right) which tunes the 2 - 3 MHz band used for experimental television broadcasts.
1933 - Kombinierter Fernseh- und Rundfunkempfänger. A combined television and radio receiver made by Telefunken, photographed in 1933. Combining the two in one cabinet was normal at this date, because a household buying a television was buying its first one and already owned a radio worth matching.
1935 - 1930s London Factory, Making Radios. A London factory making radios in the 1930s. Radio manufacture is the industry that television manufacture grew directly out of, using the same benches and the same workers.
1935 - 1930s VACUUM TUBE MANUFACTURING DOCUMENTARY (SILENT) WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. VALVES 17974. Silent 1930s footage of vacuum tube manufacturing at Western Electric. Pre-war tube making is almost entirely hand work, which is why the labour is so visible.
1936 - Camden, New Jersey - Radio. RCA Victor. Final Inspector - testing radio frequency alignment and making. A final inspector at RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey, testing radio frequency alignment on the production line. Camden was RCA's main plant and the place where Zworykin's laboratory work turned into manufactured product. The photograph is by Lewis Hine.
1936 - 1936 Marconi television Musée EDF Electropolis photo 1. A Marconi television of 1936, photographed at the Musée EDF Electropolis in Mulhouse, France. 1936 is the year Britain began its high definition service from Alexandra Palace, alternating Baird's mechanical system with Marconi-EMI's electronic one.
1936 - FE VI inBetrieb a. German mirror television made by AEG/Telefunken, from 1937. The cathode ray tube (CRT) which produces the image is in the cabinet and is viewed in the mirror, which can be folded down when the set is not in use. The correct model name mayTelefunken FE V (1936/37)[1].
1936 - Baird mirror-lid television, 1936. A Baird receiver whose lid opens to reveal a mirror set at an angle above the tube. The picture was viewed as a reflection in that mirror rather than head on, which let the tube stand upright inside a shallow cabinet. The arrangement was common while tubes were long and cabinets were still furniture.
1936 - Here’s looking at you.. Here Is Looking At You, the demonstration programme material from the beginning of BBC television. The archive names who claims what and adjudicates nothing, because the question of who invented television conflates the idea, the mechanical demonstration, the all-electronic camera and the commercial system.
1936 - The Workings of the BBC Television Studio, 1930s - Archive Film 1034559. The workings of a BBC television studio in the 1930s, from a film archive. Studio hardware is the other half of the story from the receiver in the living room.
1937 - FE VI inBetrieb b. A German Telefunken mirror television of 1937 in operation, showing the interval card of the Paul Nipkow television transmitter in Berlin. The phosphor looks beige-brown under room light but fluoresces bluish white when driven, which is why the working screen looks nothing like the dormant one.
1937 - 1937 coronation television network map RUS. Plan of TV camera placement (yellow blobs) and cable network (red lines) during the May 12, 1937 telecast of the coronation procedure of George VI and Elizabeth Queen Mom. This was the world's first live outdoor telecast. Network plan and technology credited to Alan Blumlein and his R&D team at EMI, working under guidelines set by the Television Advisory Committee.
1937 - Grace Brandt Eddie Albert Grace and Eddie The Honeymooners Show 1937. Photo of Grace Bradt and Eddie Albert in an early NBC television program The Honeymooners-Grace and Eddie Show. The program ran on radio from 1933 to 1936. Movable iconoscope cameras are being used to transmit the program, along with overhead ceiling lighting.
1937 - 1937: The FIRST shows on BBC TELEVISION | Classic Clips | BBC Archive. The first shows on BBC television, from the BBC archive. From 2 November 1936 the BBC alternated Baird 240-line transmissions with the Marconi-EMI electronic system and ceased Baird broadcasts in February 1937, because the Baird intermediate film camera needed developer tanks and hoses and could not move.
1938 - 1938 Packard Bell Model 46H AM SW Radio. Packard Bell Model 46H AM SW Radio (1938). Packard Bell was a Western US radio and television manufacturer famous for stationizing their tuning dials.
1938 - The Blumlein waveform 1938. The Blumlein waveform, the early British video signal standard proposed by A. D. Blumlein and enacted by the Television Advisory Committee in 1936. It stayed in service until 1986, which makes it one of the longest lived specifications in broadcasting.
1938 - Televisore a valvole, bianco e nero, midget - Magneti Marelli RV 175.. Questo televisore è contenuto in un mobile in legno e radica con un'apertura quadrata sul lato frontale. Tale apertura, smussata agli angoli e protetta da un vetro, permette la visione dello schermo del tubo catodico (cinescopio) Sotto lo schermo sono presenti 5 comandi a manopola con le seguenti funzioni: sincronia orizzontale/sintonia, luminosità, fuoco, sensibilità, sincronia verticale/contrasto. Nella parte superiore uno sportello incernierato permette di ispezionare l'interno del televisore dove è presente il circuito a valvole (mancanti) costituito da 24 valvole, gli elementi circuitali (condensatori), il tubo catodico posto in orizzontale e un sistema di trasformatori che permetteva l.
1939 - Fernseh-Einheitsempfänger E1-Chassis. The chassis of a German Einheits-Fernseh-Empfänger E1 of 1939, the standardised receiver intended to make television a mass German product. The war stopped the programme, and Britain had built about 19,000 sets against Germany's much smaller output.
1939 - "Television" by RKO (1939). Television, an RKO short from 1939 made as RCA staged television as a consumer proposition at the New York World Fair. The fair significance is retail rather than invention: Jenkins had been broadcasting publicly from 1928 and experimental electronic broadcasting predates it.
1939 - Television Comes to America: Television (1939) | Restored & Upscaled. Television Comes to America, a restored 1939 film. The 1939 launch produced roughly three years of trickle sales and then a total stop, because the War Production Board halted civilian manufacture from 22 April 1942 to 20 August 1945.
1939 - New York World's Fair 1939. Long amateur footage of the 1939 New York World Fair, where the American public met television as a product at scale. The crowd at the shop window is the founding image of television retail and it predates mass ownership entirely.
1939 - Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40, reel 4 (silent). Silent home movies from the 1939 to 1940 New York World Fair, from a 16mm archive. Home movie footage of the fair is a different register from the corporate films and shows the crowds rather than the pitch.
1939 - RCA 1939 console television television. An RCA console television of about 1939, from the range launched around the New York World's Fair. Pre-war American production was small, only seven to eight thousand sets against roughly nineteen thousand in Britain, and the American market really begins in 1946.
1939 - D 1939 Einheitsfernsehempfänger E1 Blockschaltbild. A block diagram of the German Einheits-Fernseh-Empfänger E1 of 1939, the standardised receiver design intended to put television into ordinary German homes. The diagram shows the signal path as functional blocks rather than as a wiring schematic.
1939 - RCA 1939 console television (1939), Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami, Florida, USA. An RCA console television of 1939 on display at the Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami, Florida. The tube points upward inside the cabinet and the picture is viewed in a mirror set into the lid, which is why the cabinet stands tall rather than deep.
1939 - Television, RCA 1939 console television, 1939, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum (detail). A detail of the RCA console television of 1939 held by the Wolfsonian museum in Miami. The tube points upward inside the cabinet and the picture is viewed in a mirror mounted in the lid, which is why the cabinet is tall rather than deep. It is a museum object rather than a period photograph.
1939 - Television inventor tells Economic Committee of difficulties in getting patents. Washington, D.C., Jan.. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Farnsworth, who conceived the principle of television when 14 years old came before the Temporary National Economic Committee today and told them that his firm, Farnsworth Television, Inc., has taken out 46 patents, has twice as many pending, and that more than 20 patent suits have resulted in which his firm was cleared in each case.
1939 - TestBroadcast-NHK STRL-1939. A record photograph of the first television test transmission by NHK's Science and Technical Research Laboratories in 1939. Japanese television development ran in parallel with the British and American work and was interrupted by the war in the same way.
1940 - AT&T Archives: A Modern Aladdin's Lamp, about vacuum tubes,1940. A Modern Aladdin Lamp, a 1940 Bell System film about vacuum tubes, from the AT&T archive. The thermionic valve is the component that made electronic television possible and the component that made early sets run hot enough to need ventilated cabinets.
1940 - Polytec One of the first soviet TV. A 17TN-1 receiver of 1940, one of the first Soviet television sets, in the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. Production was cut short by the war within a year of this model appearing.
1940 - Radio and Television 1940 pre II Era CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage - The Best Documentary E. Radio and television in 1940, before the wartime halt. Pre-war, Britain built about 19,000 sets, the United States only 7,000 to 8,000 and Germany about 1,600.
1941 - Electrons on Parade - How Vacuum Tubes were made, worked and used in 1941. Electrons on Parade, a 1941 film on how vacuum tubes were made, worked and were used. Wartime is the hinge: the War Production Board halted manufacture of television and radio equipment for civilian use from 22 April 1942 to 20 August 1945.
1941 - Television USSR. A 17TN-3 receiver made in the USSR in 1941, built only as a small production series. The limited run is the fact worth keeping: Soviet television manufacturing had barely begun when the war stopped it, and sets from this moment are correspondingly rare.
1945 - Tomorrow Television (1945) - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage. Tomorrow Television, a 1945 film made as civilian manufacture was about to restart. The War Production Board halt ran from 22 April 1942 to 20 August 1945, and the American television market really begins in 1946 rather than at the 1939 World Fair.
1945 - RCA Laboratories 1940's Technology, Radio, Television, Vacuum Tube Technology Electronics History. RCA Laboratories in the 1940s, covering radio, television and vacuum tube technology. Zworykin was hired by Sarnoff to RCA Camden in spring 1930; iconoscope experiments began in April 1931 and the tube was named on 23 October 1931.
1946 - Pye D16T , 405 Line Television 1946. A Pye D16T 405-line television from 1946, shown working. British television restarted after the war in June 1946 on the same 405-line System A it had used since 1936.
1946 - 8D21 vacuum tube, VHF dual tetrode, RCA, introduced 1946 for 5 KW television transmitters - National. Exhibit in the National Electronics Museum, 1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, Maryland, USA. All items in this museum are unclassified. The museum permitted photography without restriction.
1946 - MoMI RCA TV. A ten inch RCA television of 1946 at the Museum of the Moving Image. Ten inches was a large screen in 1946 and the tube behind it dictated a cabinet deeper than it was wide.
1946 - RCA 621TS Television Receiver (1946) with optional blonde cabinet, MoMI. An RCA receiver of 1946 in a blonde wood cabinet, at the Museum of the Moving Image. 1946 is where the American television market really begins, after the War Production Board halted civilian set manufacture between 1942 and 1945.
1946 - RCA 630-TS Television. RCA Model 630-TS television set seen in a museum. Its caption indicates it was the first mass produced TV set and was sold in 1946 and 1947.
1946 - RCA 630TS Television Receiver (1946), MoMI. An RCA receiver of 1946 at the Museum of the Moving Image, with a rectangular mask over a round tube face. Masking a round tube to look rectangular was standard until tubes themselves were made rectangular.
1947 - Телевизор «Т1-Ленинград» (1947 год). A T1 Leningrad receiver of 1947 in the State Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. It was one of the first Soviet sets built in series after the war, and the cabinet is plain lacquered wood with a small round tube face.
1947 - Polytec Moskvich T1- one of the first soviet TV. A Moskvich T1 receiver, among the earliest Soviet production television sets, held by the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. Soviet television manufacturing restarted after the war and this is from that first wave.
1948 - Motorolagoldenviewchassis. The underside of the chassis of a 1948 Motorola seven inch receiver, showing point to point wiring between valve sockets. Every joint here was made by hand, which is why sets of this period were repairable and why a service trade existed to repair them.
1949 - 19K1 IF stages. The intermediate frequency stages from a Motorola television of about 1949, pulled from the set. The IF strip is where the signal is amplified before detection, and alignment of these coils was routine service work.
1949 - Bush TV12 vintage tv. A British made Bush television of 1949, this example the Birmingham or Midlands variant rather than the London one. Sets were built to different variants because each transmitter region used a different frequency, so the receiver had to be matched to where it would be sold.
1949 - Emerson1949. An American Emerson receiver of 1949 built around a 7JP4 picture tube. The tube type is the set's defining specification, a seven inch round face with the standard white phosphor of the period.
1949 - Московский радиозавод - запуск в производство телевизионных приёмников "Т-1" (кинохроника, 1951 г.). The Moscow radio works starting production of T-1 television receivers, from the Russian state film and photo archive. This is the beginning of Soviet mass television manufacture.
1949 - Vintage Television Collection - Motorola Porthole Suitcase 7-Inch Television Set, Model 7VT5RB,. A Motorola porthole suitcase television with a seven inch screen, the round tube face framed by a circular bezel that gives the style its name. The set closes like luggage and was sold as portable at a time when that meant liftable rather than carriable.
1950 - Circa 1950's Television Remote Control made by Motorola. A Motorola television remote control of about 1950, from the first generation of domestic remotes. Early units were wired to the set or worked by light or ultrasound, and all of them existed to save the viewer standing up.
1950 - Crib and TV, circa 1950. A crib beside a monochrome television with rabbit ears antenna, about 1950. The indoor V shaped aerial had to be adjusted by hand for each channel, which is why it sat on top of the set rather than on the roof.
1950 - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton kokoelma D1974 11121F. A child watching TV. / Lapsi katsomassa TV:ta. photographer unknown / kuvaaja tuntematon 1950's / 1950-luku Finland Finnish Museum of Photography / Suomen valokuvataiteen museo.
1950 - Telaio di televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 21 pollici, a valvole. Struttura di televisore senza mobile. È presente un telaio in metallo al quale è fissato sia il circuito a valvole che il cinescopio rettangolare 21 pollici. Su una base in metallo si trovano, frontalmente, le manopole per la regolazione delle immagini (sintonia, contrasto, luminosità, volume, toni, ecc) collegate al circuito interno interamente visibile È visibile parte della struttura interna del cinescopio.
1950 - !! Manufacturing RCA Television, vacuum tubes, CRT 1919s- 1960s. Compiled footage of RCA television, vacuum tube and CRT manufacture across several decades. Useful as a survey of how the same plant changed as the product changed.
1950 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, da tavolo, a valvole. Televisore in legno con profili arrotondati, molto profondo. La parete frontale, in legno verniciato di grigio, è quasi completamente occupata dallo schermo del cinescopio rettangolare, protetto da un vetro Sul lato destro si trova una griglia in legno e tessuto a protezione dell'altoparlante interno. Sotto due commutatori (mancano le manopole) per la sintonia e la regolazione del volume.
1950 - 18.11.1950 Television exhibition at Stockmann department store in Helsinki. A television exhibition at the Stockmann department store in Helsinki in 1950. Finland had no regular broadcasts at this date, so the display was showing people a technology they could not yet receive at home.
1950 - The first television broadcast in Finland. The first television program in Finland on November 18, 1950. Made possible by General Electric with Yle Finland and the Helsinki 1952 Olympics organizing committee. The studio was in Stockmann department store, Helsinki.
1950 - January Sales (1950). British Pathé on the January sales in 1950, the retail rhythm the television trade was fitted into. The wall of identical sets showing the same demo loop is the single most reproducible retail image across the whole century.
1950 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 15 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole - Telefunken TTV 7/17.. Televisore in legno con profili smussati. La parete frontale, in legno verniciato grigio chiaro è quasi completamente occupata dallo schermo 15 pollici del cinescopio rettangolare, protetto da un vetro Sotto allo schermo si trovano quattro manopole per la regolazione della qualità dell'immagine Sul lato destro si hanno un interruttore per l'accensione e un selettore per le bande VHF e i rispettivi canali (da A a N) Sul retro è posto un pannello forato in materiale ligneo che funge da coperchio; da esso fuoriece in posizione mediana una sporgenza metallica a forma di cupola che protegge la coda del cinescopio (non visibile). Sulla fascia sottostante la sporgenza, sono visibili le boccole per.
1950 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 19 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole. Questo televisore è contenuto in un mobile in legno squadrato, con la superficie un po' rovinata La parete frontale è quasi interamente occupata dallo schermo del cinescopio rettangolare da 19 pollici, protetto da un vetro. Sotto allo schermo si hanno tre manopola probabilmente per l'accensione e la regolazione del volume, la regolazione dei toni e della luminosità (o del contrasto) e un selettore per la selezione delle bande e la sintonia dei canali. Al centro, tra le manopole, uno sportello apribile in plastica copre altre cinque manopole per la regolazione della visione sullo schermo Sul rettro è alloggiato un pannello che potrebbe essere non pertinenente in quanto è di dimensioni inferio.
1950 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, da tavolo, a valvole. Televisore in legno e radica con profili arrotondati. La parete frontale è quasi completamente occupata dallo schermo del cinescopio rettangolare, protetto da un vetro Sotto allo schermo si hanno 3 comandi per la regolazione del contrasto (e per l'accensione), della luminosità, del volume e un selettore per i canali (da 1 a 5) con rotella per la sintonia Ai lati si hanno delle griglie a protezione dell'altoparlante e per l'aerazione Il retro è costituito da un pannello forato per l'aerazione. Fuoriesce il cavo di connessione alla rete elettrica All'interno si ha il circuito a valvole con cinescopio rettangolare con deflessione a 70° e due altoparlanti.
1950 - The Manufacture of Radio Valves Presented by Mullard. The Manufacture of Radio Valves, a Mullard company film. This copy comes from a named valve company rather than an anonymous re-upload; a better-known upload of the same film blocks embedding entirely. Valve making is the direct ancestor of tube making: same glass, same vacuum, same getter.
1950 - TV22a portable television receiver, designed and manufactured by Bush, 1950 - Design Museum, Kensington -. A Bush portable receiver of 1950 in the Design Museum in London. The cabinet is moulded Bakelite with a round tube face set into a rectangular front, a shape that became shorthand for British television of the period. It is shown as a museum object.
1951 - Vintage Hickok Military Tube Tester, Model TV-3B-U, Made In USA, Circa 1951. A Hickok military specification valve tester. Testers like this let a technician check each valve under load rather than by guesswork, and shops kept one on the bench because a dead valve was the most common fault.
1951 - Ламповый телевизор КВН-49 на конвеере 1951 год. The KVN-49 valve television on the assembly line in 1951. The KVN-49 is the set with the water-filled magnifying lens in front of a tiny tube, and the lens exists because the tube was too small. Its specifications are not established here.
1952 - Baird Coronation Fifteen (C1815) Television, 1952, back. rough-fitting of the new hardboard back. As I acquired the set the back was missing so a new one was cut from pegboard. Slots were made by hand-scoring with a tank cutter and stanley knife.
1952 - Baird Coronation Fifteen (C1815) Television, 1952, front. a project for the future, a 1952 Baird C1815 coronation 15. Priced at over 100 guineas when new which equates to over £3000 in today's money. 405 line, B&W, 15in picture with plug-in modules and an aftermarket band 3 ITV converter.
1952 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, da tavolo, a valvole - Philips TX 1410 U.. Televisore di forma squadrata, in legno. Sulla parete frontale è presente un'apertura rettangolare dove è visibile lo schermo rettangolare del tubo catodico (cinescopio), protetto da un vetro Sotto allo schermo si ha una rete in tessuto e delle liste in legno a protezione dell'altoparlante. Ai lati dell'altoparlante sono presenti 4 comandi a manopola in bachelite con le seguenti funzioni: sincronismo orizzontale e verticale, contrasto/luminosità, canale/sintonia (canali preselezionati da 1 a 10), tono/volume/interruttore All'interno del televisore sono presenti il circuito a 24 valvole con il tubo catodico posto in orizzontale e un altoparlante magnetodinamico circolare.
1953 - Vidor television set, circa 1953, Epping Forest District Museum. "Vidor" television (presumably Vidor Batteries?) circa 1953. On display in Epping Forest District Museum. Label reads: Vidor Television About 1953 This television was bought by a family in Ongar to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 011 Besucher betrachten Fernsehempfänger des VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Technische Me. Visitors examining receivers from VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg at the Technical Fair in 1953. For most of the people in this photograph it would have been the first television set they had stood in front of.
1953 - 1953: Driving the QUEEN'S CORONATION route | BBC Newsreel | Iconic News Stories | BBC Archive. Driving the coronation route in 1953, from BBC newsreel. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, faster than the telephone, the car or the refrigerator.
1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 018 Drei Fernsehempfänger Modell T 2 "Leningrad" des VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Techn. Three T2 Leningrad receivers made by VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, shown at the Technical Fair in 1953. The Radeberg works built East Germany's first television sets to a Soviet design, which is why a German built receiver carries a Leningrad name.
1953 - Elizabeth Is Queen (1953 Coronation Documentary) | British Pathé. Elizabeth Is Queen, the British Pathé coronation documentary. British households with television went from 15,000 in 1947 to 15.1 million by 1968, and the 1953 coronation is the single largest step in that curve.
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II Coronation in London, 1953 Colour 16mm Home Movies. Colour 16mm home movies of the coronation in London in 1953. British households with television rose from 15,000 in 1947 to 15.1 million by 1968.
1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 019 Zwei Fernsehempfänger Modell T 2 "Leningrad" des VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Techn. Two T2 Leningrad receivers from VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg at the 1953 Technical Fair. Radeberg was the East German plant that started series television production, working from the Soviet design.
1953 - 1953 London, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation, Home Movies. Home movies of the 1953 coronation in London. Amateur film is where the actual domestic arrangements survive.
1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 022 Besucher betrachten den Fernsehempfänger FE 852 B am Stand des VEB Sachsenwerk R. Visitors examining the FE 852 B Rembrandt receiver on the VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg stand at the 1953 Technical Fair. The Radeberg works was East Germany's first television plant, and the Rembrandt was among its early domestic models.
1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 026 Chassis des Fernseh-Kleinempfängers HF E 6 des VEB Werk für Fernmeldewesen Berli. The chassis of an HF E 6 small television receiver from the VEB works at Berlin Oberschöneweide, photographed in 1953. The chassis is the set: the cabinet was a box built around this assembly of valves, transformers and hand wiring.
1953 - Queen's Coronation Celebrations in Scotland, 1953 - Archive Film 1033078. Coronation celebrations in Scotland in 1953, from a film archive. The image of a whole street gathered round one set describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
1953 - Coronation Of H.M. Queen Elizabeth 11 Naval Participation In The Procession (1954). British Pathé on the 1953 coronation. The coronation is the event that put British sets into homes and put crowds in front of shop windows, and it is the best documented case of communal viewing anywhere.
1953 - Fotothek df roe-neg 027 Chassis des Fernseh-Kleinempfängers HF E 6 des VEB Werk für Fernmeldewesen Berli. A second view of the HF E 6 receiver chassis from the Berlin Oberschöneweide works in 1953, taken from a different angle. East German set production was concentrated in a handful of VEB plants supplying the whole republic.
1953 - Elizabeth II Coronation Day Parade, 1953 UK Town. Coronation day in a British town in 1953, filmed locally. The communal viewing that day happened in homes, pubs and in front of shop windows alike.
1953 - 1953: Hunting for BARGAINS in the NEW YEAR SALES | Newsreel | Voice of the People | BBC Archive. Shoppers hunting for bargains in the 1953 new year sales, from the BBC archive. This is the retail context immediately before the coronation set boom.
1953 - 1950s Vocational Training Film: Selling as a Career (1953) - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage. A 1950s vocational training film on selling as a career, which is the trade the television showroom belonged to. Britain rented where America bought, because sets were expensive and broke down often enough that an all-in maintenance contract was genuinely valuable.
1953 - 1953 U.S. NAVY ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROJECT TINKERTOY 47174. Project Tinkertoy, a 1953 US Navy programme for automated electronic manufacturing. Automating electronics assembly was attempted for military reasons first and reached consumer television later.
1953 - The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology. A 1953 documentary on the transistor and what it was expected to change. Transistorisation is what made the portable television possible, arriving in the Sony TV8-301 of 1959.
1954 - Western Germany - The Land And The People (1954). West Germany, its land and people in 1954, which is the period when German households were first acquiring sets. German pre-war production was only about 1,600 sets, so the domestic market really begins here.
1954 - 1954г. телевизор "Темп". радиозавод "Темп". Москва. The Temp television and its radio works in Moscow, 1954. Soviet set specifications and model dates are not established in the sources and are not asserted here.
1954 - Fotothek df roe-neg 024 Sowjetische Fernseh- und Radiogeräte auf der Leipziger Herbstmesse 1954. Soviet television and radio sets shown at the Leipzig Autumn Fair in 1954. The Leipzig fair was where Eastern bloc manufacturers displayed to each other, and Soviet sets set the pattern the other socialist states followed.
1954 - Rikidōzan（力道山）生年月日：1924年11月14日没年月日：1963年12月15日. Rikidozan, born 14 November 1924 and died 15 December 1963, the wrestler whose bouts filled the Japanese street television crowds. The hardware fact is that the set was public property before it was domestic property.
1954 - Fotothek df roe-neg 030 Fernsehgerät auf der Leipziger Herbstmesse 1954. A television receiver at the Leipzig Autumn Fair in 1954. Trade fairs did the work that showrooms could not yet do, because most towns had no dealer stocking sets.
1954 - 力道山〜馬場&猪木BI砲〜J鶴田まで～激動!!テレビ・プロレス25年史（1978放送）1/2. A 1978 broadcast history of twenty five years of television wrestling in Japan, built on the Rikidozan era. On 19 February 1954 crowds gathered at street televisions to watch Rikidozan fight Masahiko Kimura; public sets in squares and stations are how most Japanese first saw television, because private ownership was still rare.
1954 - Chigirinsky Kirovohrad watching Kyiv TV. Residents of the village of Chigirinsky in the Kirovohrad region watching a programme from the Kyiv television centre. Village viewing was collective in the 1950s because one set served a whole community, and the audience here is far larger than any household.
1954 - History of GUM 07. The demonstration hall of the GUM department store in Moscow in December 1954, before a showing of Soviet television sets of various makes. GUM staged demonstrations because most customers had never seen a working set, and a viewing was an event in itself.
1955 - Vintage Superior Instruments Co. Trans-Conductance Vacuum Tube Tester, Model TV-12, Circa 1955. A Superior Instruments transconductance vacuum tube tester of about 1955. Transconductance testing measures how well a valve actually amplifies rather than merely whether it conducts, which catches a tube that is weak but not yet dead.
1955 - A factory producing radio components, 1950's -- Film 9712. A 1950s factory producing radio components. Component supply is the invisible half of set manufacture.
1955 - Deutsches Rundfunk-Museum Ausstellung auf der IFA 2012 PD 13 Ferhnsehgerät Braun FS 1, 1955. A Braun FS 1 receiver of 1955 shown by the Deutsches Rundfunk-Museum at the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin in 2012. Braun's sets were designed under the influence of the Ulm School and treated the receiver as a plain box rather than as furniture. It is a museum object on display at a trade fair.
1955 - Vintage Remote King Corporal Remote Sound Control For Television, Made In USA, Circa 1955. This is an example of what a TV remote was like back in the 1950s. It sold for $9.95 and came in ivory or mahogany. According to the instructions, you had to take off the back of the television and splice the remote wires into the speaker wires.
1955 - Television Manufacturing 1950's. Television manufacturing in the 1950s, filmed inside the plant. American dominance runs from 1946 to the late 1960s, with RCA, Zenith, Philco, Admiral, Motorola, Emerson, Sylvania, Magnavox and DuMont all building sets.
1955 - Living the American Dream, 1950s Suburban Life. Suburban American life in the 1950s, with the set in the room. The image of the whole street gathering round one set is real but describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
1955 - 1950s Factory Operation - This Is Automation - Automated Manufacturing - CharlieDeanArchives. This Is Automation, a 1950s film on automated manufacturing. Automation arrives in electronics assembly slowly, and the valve-era television line remained heavily manual.
1955 - 1950s USA, Women Shopping, Shop Window Mannequins. Women shopping past shop window mannequins in 1950s America. The shop window is the founding image of television retail and it predates mass ownership.
1955 - 1950s Selfridges, UK Department Store, 16mm Film Rushes. Selfridges filmed on 16mm in the 1950s, the department store context in which television departments sat. Rental bundles the set, the aerial, the repair and the replacement into a weekly payment, which is why the trade was enormous and why it died when sets became reliable.
1955 - " THE LONG CORRIDOR " 1955 ZENITH TELEVISION PROMO FILM TV SET MANUFACTURE & QUALITY TESTING 19824. The Long Corridor, a 1955 Zenith promotional film on set manufacture and quality testing. At its 1962 height Zenith ran at least seven Chicago plants employing more than 6,460 workers, including facilities on West Dickens Avenue and West Potomac Avenue.
1955 - Ideal Homes Exhibition (1950-1959). The Ideal Home Exhibition in the 1950s, where the television was sold as part of a way of living rather than as an appliance. The aerial is part of the domestic hardware: rooftop arrays, indoor rabbit ears and later the satellite dish all had to be fitted, aimed and adjusted.
1955 - Customer service in a 1950's shoe shop. Archive film 96970. Customer service in a 1950s shoe shop, filmed as an archive record of counter service. The same selling culture applied to the television dealer.
1955 - Loewe Fernseher 50er Jahre. A Loewe television of the 1950s, filmed by a German film museum. Loewe was one of the German makers whose sets defined the domestic interior there.
1955 - Zenith Radio Corporation Research: The Long Corridor 1955 Educational Documentary WDTVLIVE - The Bes. Zenith Radio Corporation research in The Long Corridor, from a different holding. Zenith long-used slogan was that the quality goes in before the name goes on, though the company itself notes prior use by other firms as early as 1906.
1955 - 1950s, USA, Families Watching TV. American families watching television in the 1950s. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, one of the fastest adoptions of any domestic object in history.
1955 - Modern Production (1950-1959). British Pathé on modern production methods in the 1950s, the general industrial context in which set manufacture sat. The operations repeat across every producing country for forty years: chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering, alignment and final test.
1955 - Going Shopping with Elizabeth Allan - Harrods (1955) | BFI National Archive. Going shopping at Harrods in 1955, from the BFI National Archive. The department store television department is one of the standard retail settings of the era.
1955 - HOW IT'S MADE: 1950's Televisions. A 1950s film following television manufacture from components to finished set. Chassis assembly, coil winding, wave soldering and final test are the operations that repeat in every producing country for forty years.
1955 - 1950s USA, Lonely Housewife Heating Up TV Dinner, Watching TV. A 1950s American housewife heating a television dinner and watching television. The TV dinner and the TV tray are furniture that exists only because of the set.
1955 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, da tavolo, a valvole - Kennedy KE 4167.. Televisore con mobile in legno squadrato e con fronte in materiale plastico bianco e profili color oro. Poggia su piedi in metallo color oro, storti Gran parte della parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo rettangolare del cinescopio, protetto da un vetro A destro dello schermo, in colonna, si trova la spia di accensione, una griglia in plastica che protegge l'altoparlante interno, 4 manopole per la regolazione di luminosità 1°, luminosità 2°, contrasto, volume, 4 tasti per le selezioni: video, tono, int, 2° P.R Sulle pareti laterali sono presenti griglie per l'aerazione Il retro, in metallo verniciato di nero, presenta, sul lato, un selettore per i canali da A ad I delle bande VHF e una ma.
1955 - Vacuum Tubes/Valves by Mullard ~Manufacture for Audio TV Radio. Mullard valve manufacture for audio, television and radio. The same plant supplied all three, which is why television and radio manufacturing histories are inseparable in Britain.
1955 - Televisor195501032014. A 1955 receiver held by the MUNCYT museum in A Coruña, Spain. The cabinet is wood with a small screen set high above a bank of controls, the standard arrangement before screens grew and cabinets flattened.
1955 - 1950s Documentary Hand Making Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT). A 1950s documentary showing a cathode ray tube being made largely by hand. Before automation, screening the phosphor and mounting the gun were craft operations.
1955 - Televisor195501032014n2. The six inch screen of a 1955 receiver, photographed close enough to show how small the viewing area was relative to the cabinet around it. Early postwar sets devoted most of their bulk to the tube neck and chassis behind that little window.
1955 - Televisor195501032014n3. The back of a 1955 receiver with its panel removed, showing the tube neck, the chassis and the point to point wiring. Sets of this period were built to be opened and serviced.
1955 - Television: Magic in the Air - 1955 - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage. Television: Magic in the Air, a 1955 educational film explaining the system to a lay audience. National curricula reliably pick the claimant who shares their passport: Britain teaches Baird, America teaches Farnsworth, Russia teaches Rosing and Zworykin, Japan teaches Takayanagi and Germany teaches Nipkow.
1955 - Televisor195501032014n4. A second rear view of the same 1955 receiver, taken from a different angle to show the depth the tube required. The funnel of the tube dictated how deep every cabinet had to be until flat panels arrived.
1956 - TV Repair Shop Power's TV 1956. Footage of a working television repair shop in 1956. The repairman with a valve caddy is a recognisable mid-century occupational figure in Britain, America and the Soviet Union alike.
1956 - The Story of Television - 1956 (Vintage Technology Documentary). The 1956 Story of Television as a vintage technology documentary, which doubled as sales material for the whole category. The UK household rental percentage at peak is not established in the sources and is deliberately not estimated here.
1956 - 1956 г. Производство первых моделей телевизоров в СССР.. Production of the first television models in the USSR in 1956, from a regional history channel. Television assembly was heavily female labour on the coil-winding, wiring and final-assembly lines through the valve era in every producing country.
1956 - THE STORY OF TELEVISION | 1956 | VINTAGE EDUCATIONAL FILM. The 1956 Story of Television as a vintage educational film, another surviving print of the most widely circulated corporate account of the subject. The crowd at the shop window is the founding image of television retail and it predates mass ownership entirely.
1956 - 1956: Vällingby - Life in Europe's Most Modern Town | Panorama | BBC Archive. Vallingby in 1956, presented as Europe most modern town. New-build housing of the period was designed around the appliances it was expected to hold.
1956 - 1956г. Кинескопы для телевизоров. Электроламповый завод. Москва. Kinescopes for televisions at the electric lamp works in Moscow, 1956. The Soviet lamp works, like the Western ones, moved from bulbs into tubes.
1956 - The Story of Television (1956) | How RCA Invented Modern TV. The 1956 Story of Television presented as RCA account of how it invented modern television. Present the claimants and adjudicate none: this is one claimant own telling.
1956 - Original 1956 RCA Film: Vintage Television Electronics & Vacuum Tube Production, TV technology. An original 1956 RCA film on television electronics and vacuum tube production. RCA is the company whose patent position defined American television, and its own films are the best surviving record of its plants.
1956 - Story Of Television (1956). The 1956 Story of Television held on a 16mm archive channel. The film exists in many prints, which is itself evidence of how hard RCA pushed its version.
1956 - "THE STORY OF TELEVISION" 1956 RCA TV DEVELOPMENT DAVID SARNOFF & VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN GG38545. The Story of Television, a 1956 RCA film featuring David Sarnoff and Vladimir Zworykin. Zworykin filed his television systems application on 29 December 1923, but the equipment it described was never successfully demonstrated, and patents issued only in 1931 and 1938. That eight-year gap between the paper claim and the working device is the entire substance of the priority dispute.
1956 - Televisore a valvole, bianco e nero, portatile, 17 pollici - Phonola - FIMI Marziano Modello 1718.. Televisore a cinescopio orientabile da 17 pollici con deflessione a 90° e focalizzazione elettrostatica L'involucro del cinescopio è in plastica stampata grigio scuro e racchiude e protegge il tubo catodico. Gli organi riceventi e di comando sono separati da quelli di trasmissione e sono contenuti in una cassetta in legno posta sotto al cinescopio Nella cassetta sono contenuti il circuito supereterodina a 21 valvole e un diodo a cristallo, un altoparlante ellittico e l'antenna Su una parete laterale della cassetta si trovano i comandi d'uso costituiti da diverse manopole per la regolazione della sintonia, del volume, del contrasto, della luminosità, della sincronia orizzontale e verticale, d.
1956 - 1956 RCA Educational Documentary: The Story of Television (1956) - CharlieDeanArchives. The 1956 RCA educational film on the story of television, from a film archive channel. Mechanical versus electronic is a category dispute rather than a factual one, and which claimant leads depends entirely on the definition chosen.
1956 - The Story of Television 1956 | RCA Promotional Film David Sarnoff | Full Documentary. The full 1956 RCA promotional documentary on television with Sarnoff. It is a corporate account of its own priority and should be watched as an argument rather than a record.
1957 - Tytöt katsovat televisiota olohuonessa. Girls watching television in a living room in Finland in 1957, photographed in black and white. The set sits low against the wall with the chairs turned towards it, which is the arrangement that made the television the focal point of a room.
1957 - 1957 : Le dimanche à Paris | Archive INA. Sunday in Paris in 1957, from the French national audiovisual institute. French manufacture began in 1936 and the domestic set arrives through the 1950s and 1960s.
1957 - MULLARD MADE FOR LIFE. Vintage Documentary. Mullard Made for Life, a company documentary held by a named film archive. Female labour dominated the coil-winding, wiring and final-assembly lines through the valve era in every producing country, and period factory film shows it plainly.
1957 - G D Science Museum-Grundig Zauberspiegel 43 T 20-05554. A Grundig Zauberspiegel monochrome receiver in the G. D. Naidu Science Museum in Coimbatore, India. A German set held in an Indian museum records how imported European hardware reached India before domestic assembly began.
1958 - First TV Remote Control Demonstration | Zenith “Space Command” (1958). A period demonstration of the Zenith Space Command remote control. Zenith is also the company that was the last American television manufacturer by 1988, and the remote is the piece of its hardware history that everyone still touches.
1958 - 2019-07-20. Ейский историко-краеведческий музей 117. A Znamya-58 television receiver in the Yeysk local history museum, a model the Leningrad plant put into production from 1958. Soviet designs stayed in production for years at a time, so one model furnished a great many households.
1958 - PYE BBC television studio camera research and radio manufacture film 1950s/60s. Pye camera research and radio manufacture filmed in the 1950s and 1960s. Pye built both studio cameras and domestic receivers.
1958 - SABA-corded-TV-remote-left. A photo of a SABA TV remote control with an attached cord. This photo was taken during a visit to the Museum of American Heritage where the TV remote was on display. The Early Television Museum shows a similar remote for the SABA P 1026 H TV set which was of German origin and which dated back to 1958 through 1963.
1958 - 1958: Life of a LONDON FAMILY | Eye to Eye | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive. The life of a London family in 1958, filmed for a BBC documentary strand. Domestic observational film of this period shows the set in situ rather than posed.
1958 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 20 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole - Braun TV70.. Televisore con mobile in legno scuro, di forma squadrata. Gran parte della parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo del cinescopio rettangolare da 20 pollici, protetto da un vetro Sotto allo schermo sono presenti il pulsante di accensione e uno sportello apribile. All'interno si trovano 5 piccole manopole per la regolazione di toni (bassi/acuti) e immagine (orizzontale e verticale), luminosità.
1958 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 21 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole - UndaRadio TS59.. Televisore in legno con profili e bordi arrotondati. La parete frontale, con bordi verniciati color beige, è interamente occupata dallo schermo 21 pollici del cinescopio rettangolare Sul lato destro si trovano un selettore per le bande VHF (con indicazioni da A ad H) e la regolazione della sintonia, tre manopole per la regolazione di contrasto, luminosità, accensione e volume. Le pareti laterali presentano griglie per l'aerazione e la protezione dell'altoparlante Il retro è coperto da un pannello forato per l'aerazione e il cinescopio sporge protetto da un coperchio cilindrico in metallo.
1958 - Exterior of room on Novye Cheryomyshki. A room in a flat in the eleventh block of Novye Cheryomushki in Moscow, photographed on 11 December 1958. Novye Cheryomushki was the prototype district for Soviet mass housing, and the television in the room is part of the standard of living the new flats were meant to demonstrate.
1958 - Transistors (1958). A 1958 British Pathé newsreel item on transistors, aimed at a general audience. Rosing had transmitted geometric shapes to a cathode ray tube in 1911, which is the crucial structural step: the display goes electronic before the camera does.
1958 - Philco Predicta television. A Philco Predicta in the permanent collection of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The Predicta lifted the tube out of the cabinet and mounted it on a slim pedestal so the picture appeared to float, which no other mass produced American set attempted.
1958 - lustiger DKW 1000 Film auf Kuba Komet Vollröhrenfernseher 50er Jahre. A Kuba Komet valve television of the 1950s in use, filmed with period film played through it. The Komet is the most extravagant German cabinet ever built, a piece of furniture with a sail.
1959 - Nürnberg, Firma Grundig. Close inspection of a just assembled television chassis for picture quality at the Grundig radio works in Nuremberg. A test card is used because it makes every fault and every geometric distortion visible at a glance, which is why test patterns existed in the first place.
1959 - Manufacturing The Reasons Why 1959 RCA; Desiging and Making Televisions ✪ Retro Documentary Films. A second copy of the 1959 RCA manufacturing film, held on a documentary archive channel. The film covers design and production together, which is rare.
1959 - Zhovten watching Kyiv TV. The family and neighbours of a tractor driver from the Zhovten collective farm in the Maryinsky district, in what is now the Donetsk region, watching television together. One set on a collective farm served an audience drawn from several households, which is how rural Soviet viewing worked.
1959 - Television Research (1959). A 1959 British Pathé item on television research, showing sets being studied in use. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, faster than the telephone, the car or the refrigerator.
1959 - FERGUSON - MEN OF VISION! Television manufacturing 1959. Ferguson Men of Vision, a 1959 film on British television manufacturing. Ferguson was part of the Thorn group, which came to dominate British set making and rental together.
1959 - Television Manufacturing In America : The Reasons Why - 1959 Educational Film - S88TV1. The Reasons Why, a 1959 RCA educational film on designing and making televisions. It is a company account of its own manufacturing and is unusually detailed on process.
1959 - 1959年「昭和の日常」「秋の山」8ミリフィルム映像 / 8mm film / Old japanese life 1959. Eight millimetre home movie footage of ordinary Japanese life in 1959. Domestic film of this period is the only honest record of what rooms actually looked like when a set arrived.
1959 - ВЕРНЫЕ СЕРДЦА советский фильм (1959) Архив Истории СССР. A Soviet feature film from 1959, included for the domestic interiors and the place of the set within them. The pub and the shop window are the underrated venues, and they belong with retail rather than with the domestic story.
1959 - Jawaharlal Nehru’s first TV appearance | Archives | BBC News India. Jawaharlal Nehru first television appearance, from the BBC India archive. Indian television begins as an experimental service in 1959 and only becomes a mass domestic object in the 1980s.
1959 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 17 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole - Phonola - FIMI Modello 1737 UHF.. Televisore con mobile in legno rivestito in materiale plastico color legno. Gran parte della parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo rettangolare del cinescopio rettangolare 17 pollici, protetto da un vetro. Intorno allo schermo il legno è verniciato di colore grigio.
1959 - 1959 TV Set Hillsborough with New Hideaway Styling 1959 RCA Television Console. A 1959 RCA console advertised with hideaway styling. The marketing language is the direct evidence for the furniture argument.
1960 - The Rock 'n' Roll Years 1960 (Also On Internet Archive Complete). A 1960 chronicle of the year including its consumer goods, useful for the retail texture around the set. The wall of identical sets showing the same demo loop is the single most reproducible retail image across the whole century.
1960 - 1960s Consumer Reports: Consumers Want to Know (1960) - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage. A 1960 consumer affairs programme on what buyers want to know. Television buying advice from the period is a direct record of what shoppers were being told.
1960 - In Colour! - THE NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION SHOW, EARLS COURT 1960. The National Radio and Television Show at Earls Court in 1960, in colour. The annual radio show is the British equivalent of the Berlin radio exhibition and the place sets were launched.
1960 - CAN178 INTERNATIONAL STANDS AND EXHIBITS AT CENTRAL AFRICAN FAIR. International stands and exhibits at a Central African fair, from the AP archive. Trade fairs are how new consumer technology reached markets without a retail network.
1960 - VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, Brigade "7.Oktober". The 7th of October brigade at the VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, photographed in January 1960. Production brigades were named for political anniversaries and photographed as a unit, so the workforce is presented as the plant's achievement.
1960 - Lotte Ulbricht im VEB Fernsehelektronik in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. Lotte Ulbricht visiting the VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik at Berlin-Oberschöneweide in March 1960. The WF works was East Germany's television electronics plant, and official visits to it were staged as demonstrations of industrial progress.
1960 - 1960: Housing Standards in Britain | Enquiry | Homes and Housing | BBC Archive. Housing standards in Britain in 1960, from the BBC archive. The size and layout of the room is what determined what kind of set could be sold into it.
1960 - GEC 405 line Television factory Coventry 1960. The GEC 405-line television factory at Coventry in 1960. British manufacture began in 1936 and the industry after the war ran through Thorn, Pye, Bush, Ekco, Ferguson and Murphy.
1960 - CMの歴史　Part1　History of Japanese TV commercials 1953 1993. A history of Japanese television commercials from 1953 onward. Included here for the domestic sets and rooms visible in the material rather than for the advertising itself.
1960 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, da tavolo - Europhon Custom de Luxe.. Televisore con mobile in legno rivestito in materiale plastico e profili in plastica color bianco panna. Poggia su piedi in metallo Gran parte della parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo rettangolare del cinescopio, autoprotetto e sporgente A destro dello schermo, in colonna, si trovano tre manopole per la regolazione di volume, luminosità e contrasto, tre interruttori per la selezione delle bande, una manopola per la sintonia, un selettore per i canali. Sotto a questi comandi una griglia in plastica protegge l'altoparlante interno Il retro, in plastica nera, è forato per permettere l'aerazione e su di esso si trovano viti per la regolazione di ampiezza orizzontale, linearità orizzontale,.
1960 - Color Picture Tube Plants. Footage of colour picture tube plants. Tube plants are a distinct subject from set assembly and are photographically richer.
1960 - Making Television Picture Tubes at Mullard
1960 - Галерея промышленной фотографии, телевизоры. Volkhov receivers made by the Novgorod television plant in 1960 alongside Kvarts sets from the Omsk television plant, in a gallery of industrial photography. Soviet television production was distributed across many regional plants rather than concentrated in one.
1961 - Radio&TV store 1961. Källmans Radio & Tv i Örnsköldsvik. Från vänster ägaren Uno Källman och försäljaren Olle Wiberg.
1961 - The National Radio Show Earls Court 1961 Colour Tv demonstration. A colour television demonstration at the National Radio Show, Earls Court, in 1961. Britain would not begin colour broadcasting until 1967, so this is a trade demonstration of a product the public could not yet buy.
1961 - B43G4C Colorskop; WF. A side view of a Colorskop colour tube, built at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik between 1961 and 1964, preserved at the Industriesalon Schöneweide. East German colour tube development ran years behind Western Europe, and surviving examples of these early tubes are rare.
1961 - TV Remote Control (Tuner) (1961) - RCA's Picture TV and Remote Control Combo - CharlieDeanArchives. A 1961 RCA film on the television remote control tuner. The remote is the piece of television hardware that most changed how the set was used in the room.
1962 - Dumont's TV 1962. The start of construction of Interstate 26 in 1962 was a defining moment in the history of the North Area. Not only did it take traffic off the State roads, like Rivers Avenue, it changed the commercial community. In addition, the new thoroughfare forever divided traditional neighborhoods.
1962 - Television to Hagahemmet home for elderly in Tammisaari. Staff and residents examining a newly delivered television at a Finnish care home in 1962, among them the ombudsman and the headmistress. A set arriving at an institution was an event worth photographing, since it was bought for a whole community rather than a household.
1962 - GA560, WF 1962. A measuring diode made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, rated for short duty only because at its maximum current of 50 mA the total service life is very limited. Components sold with a stated lifetime in hours were normal in valve era electronics, where everything was consumable.
1962 - SRL459; WF 1962. Two air cooled transmitting tetrodes made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, rated 5 kW at 30 MHz and 3 kW at 100 MHz. Valves of this size sat in the transmitter rather than the receiver, which is where thermionic technology survived longest after receivers went solid state.
1962 - Polytec First soviet colour TV. An experimental Soviet colour receiver of 1962, built on the NTSC system and modelled on Japanese designs, in the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. The USSR later adopted SECAM rather than NTSC, so this line did not reach production in this form.
1962 - ZA250, WF 1962. Zener diodes of the ZA250 series in all glass envelopes, silicon planar devices rated at 250 mW, made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin in 1962. A Zener diode holds a fixed reference voltage, and a television needs several stable references to keep its picture steady as the mains varies.
1962 - Toshiba 14KD black-and-white television set, 1962 AD - Edo-Tokyo Museum - Sumida, Tokyo, Japan - DSC06989. A Toshiba 14KD monochrome receiver of 1962, exhibited in the Edo-Tokyo Museum. Japanese domestic sets of this period were compact wooden boxes on short legs, sized for rooms smaller than American living rooms.
1963 - 2. Televizorius Temp-6, Šiauliai. The rear of a Temp-6 television made at Šiauliai in Lithuania, with the back removed. Soviet sets were built to be opened, and the exposed chassis is what a repair technician met.
1963 - B0118-0010-027, Werk für Fernsehelektronik, Besuch Chruschtschow. Chruschtschow, am 18.1.1963 näher mit den ökonomischen Problemen bekannt, die auf dem VI. Parteitag der SED für die Periode des entfalteten Aufbaus des Sozialismus in der DDR zur Diskussion stehen. Das "WF", einer der bedeutendsten Elektronikbetriebe im Osten der Hauptstadt, zählt zu den wichtigsten Zulieferbetrieben für den elektronischen.
1963 - Betriebsfilmstudio zeigt Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt RFT um 1963. The works film studio of the VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt showing the East German television plant around 1963. RFT was the East German electronics combine and Staßfurt was its television works.
1963 - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton kokoelma D1974 11560DxxA. Smallholder Lempi Kuikka with a TV-set she won from a competition organized by Kuluttaja magazine. There is no picture on the screen, as the Kuikkas' house didn't have electricity. Original caption: "Lempi Kuikka trying out the buttons of the magnificent PYE television, although there is no picture to see." (Kuluttaja 33/1963, p.
1963 - B30M2; WF 1963. A round monochrome television picture tube made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik in Berlin, 30 cm across the glass with a usable screen area of 18 by 20 cm. The round envelope wastes most of its face, which is why the usable rectangle is so much smaller than the tube, and why rectangular tubes replaced it.
1963 - B53G1; WF 1963. A monochrome picture tube with 110 degree magnetic deflection and a 514.5 mm diagonal, about 20 inches, made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik and photographed in October 1963. A 20 inch screen was a large domestic set in East Germany at this date.
1963 - EF80; WF 1963. An EF80 pentode from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, this example with gold plated pins. The EF80 was the standard video and intermediate frequency amplifier valve of European television, used in enormous numbers, and gold plating was for contact reliability rather than show.
1963 - F7,5M3; WF 1963. A Superorthicon camera pickup tube made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, photographed in October 1963. The image orthicon was the sensitive camera tube that made live studio and outside broadcasting practical, and it sat at the opposite end of the chain from the picture tube in the viewer’s set.
1963 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 19 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole - Uranya 19" automatic bonded.. Televisore squadrato con mobile in legno rivestito in materiale plastico e profili e accessori in plastica color rame. Poggia su piedi in metallo Gran parte della parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo rettangolare del cinescopio autoprotetto rettangolare 19 pollici A destro dello schermo, in colonna, si trovano un selettore per i canali VHF (da A a H), tre manopole per la regolazione della sintonia, del volume e del contrasto, quattro tasti per la selezione di canali preselezionati Il retro, in plastica nera, è forato per l'aerazione. Sono presenti una rotella per la sintonia del 2° canale (UHF), i connettori per le antenne VHF e UHF (300 Ohm), viti per la regolazione della linearità e am.
1963 - “ COLOR ” 1963 RCA COLOR TV TELEVISION PROMO / ADVERTISING FILM XD95645. A 1963 RCA colour television promotional film. Colour sets were approved in December 1953 and were a commercial failure for roughly a decade, so a 1963 sales film is aimed at a market that still had not arrived.
1964 - Televisore a transistor, bianco e nero, portatile, 11 pollici - Brionvega Algol 11".. Apparecchio in materiale plastico ABS color rosso-arancio con profili arrotondati e smussati. Il cinescopio da 11 pollici con deflessione a 90°, è inclinato per consentire una visione facilitata. La scocca è arrotondata e con bordi smussati.
1964 - 23LK1B; WF 1964. A round monochrome picture tube carrying a Soviet type designation, 12 inches across with a usable screen of 13.5 by 18 cm, made at the Berlin works that later became the Werk für Fernsehelektronik. An East German tube built to a Soviet designation shows how closely the Eastern bloc electronics industries were specified against each other.
1964 - B43G2; WF 1964. A monochrome picture tube from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik with 110 degree magnetic deflection and a 400 mm diagonal. Widening the deflection angle to 110 degrees let the tube be shorter for the same screen size, which is what made shallower cabinets possible.
1964 - B43M2; WF 1964. A monochrome picture tube built at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik using 70 degree magnetic deflection and magnetic focusing, with a 390 mm diagonal. A 70 degree tube is noticeably longer than a 110 degree one of the same screen size, so this design demanded a deeper cabinet behind it.
1964 - B47G1; WF 1964. A monochrome picture tube from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik with 110 degree magnetic deflection and a 446 mm diagonal, about 17.5 inches. East German tube production was concentrated at this one Berlin plant, which supplied set makers across the republic.
1964 - B53G1; WF 1964. A monochrome picture tube made at the Werk für Fernsehelektronik with 110 degree magnetic deflection. The tube was the single most expensive component in a television set and the one that fixed the shape of everything built around it.
1964 - B59G1; WF 1964. A rectangular monochrome picture tube from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik with 110 degree deflection, a usable screen of 385 by 489 mm and a 566 mm diagonal, about 22 inches. Rectangular tubes ended the wasted glass of the round envelope and let the screen fill the front of the cabinet.
1964 - EF860, WF 1964. EF860 pentodes from the Werk für Fernsehelektronik, the tube on the right carrying the "Q" quality mark. The Q mark was an East German state quality designation, applied to goods judged to meet export standard.
1964 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 23 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole e transistor - Brionvega Cygnus 23".. Mobile in materiale plastico dall'aspetto simil legno e di forma squadrata. La parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo del cinescopio e da una colonna che comprende la griglia che protegge l'altoparlante ellittico e alcuni comandi. Il cinescopio è autoprotetto da 23 pollici Sotto all'altoparlante si hanno il tasto di accensione, tre manopole per la regolazione di contrasto, volume, luminosità, una manopola per la selezione dei canali UHF da 20 a 70, un selettore per i canali VHF da A ad H con possibilità di regolazione fine della sintonia e un deviatore per la scelta della banda Il retro è in plastica nera, forato per l'aerazione.
1965 - Italy 1960s: The trade fair archive footage. Italian trade fair footage from the 1960s, showing consumer goods presented to the public. Britain rented where America bought, because sets were expensive and broke down often enough that an all-in maintenance contract was genuinely valuable.
1965 - 電子の技術　テレビジョン. A Japanese science film on the technology of television, from a science film preservation body. Patent drawings and lab notebooks are the rights-clean, high-yield source for this part of the story, and they map directly onto the apparatus.
1965 - VEB Fernsehgerätewerk Staßfurt 1965. The Staßfurt television works in 1965, filmed inside the production halls. The migration runs Germany, Britain and France in the 1930s, America from 1946, Japan from 1959, Korea in the 1980s and 1990s, then China from the 2000s.
1965 - Lal Bahadur Shastri's rare TV appearance: 'I belong to the category of common men' | BBC News India. Lal Bahadur Shastri rare television appearance. Early Indian television is a state project with very few receivers.
1965 - National TC-96Ga 'Saga' furniture-style television set, 1965 AD, with KSA-3 thermos for cooked rice, 1967. A National TC-96Ga 'Saga' furniture style receiver of 1965, shown in the Edo-Tokyo Museum alongside a KSA-3 thermos for cooked rice. The pairing is the exhibit's point: both were aspirational household purchases of the same moment.
1965 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 12 pollici, portatile, a transistor - Radio Allocchio Bacchini 12 P 31.. Apparecchio con mobile in legno, di forma squadrata con profili cromati e maniglia in metallo per il trasporto Lo schermo rettangolare del cinescopio 12 pollici autoprotetto con angolo di deflessione 90°, occupa quasi tutta la parete frontale. Alla destra dello schermo si hanno il selettore per i canali VHF da A ad H1 e una manopola per la sintonia dei canali UHF (indicazioni numeriche da 4,7 a 8,7), tre manopole per la regolazione di volume, luminosità e contrasto, due tasti uno (nero) per la selezione del 1° o 2° programma della televisione italiana e l'altro (rosso) con indicazioni S ed A Sul lato destro si ha una griglia in legno e tessuto a protezione dell'altoparlante circolare interno.
1965 - Televisore CRT, bianco e nero, 18 pollici, da tavolo, a valvole e transistor - Emerson Viscount (Sky Radar. Televisore con mobile in legno rivestito in materiale plastico. La parte anteriore è in plastica beige con particolari color oro e argento. Poggia su piedi in metallo sporgenti Gran parte della parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo rettangolare del cinescopio, autoprotetto da 18 pollici A destro dello schermo, in colonna, si trovano una manopola per la selezione dei canali UHF (indicazioni numeriche da 21 a 75) e un selettore per le bande VHF (canali da 1 a 13), tre manopole per la regolazione del contrasto, della luminosità, del volume, un tasto per l'accensione Sul lato è presente un altoparlante circolare Il retro, in plastica nera, è forato per permettere l'aerazione e su di esso si.
1965 - Производство ламповых телевизоров в СССР. Valve television production in the USSR. Soviet sets were built in volume across the union, at Moscow, Leningrad, Minsk, Lviv and elsewhere, and the plants have their own industrial film tradition.
1966 - Philips television factory 1966, The Netherlands.. Inside the Philips television factory in the Netherlands in 1966. Philips is the company through which most European television hardware history runs.
1966 - 6th Psychological Operations Battalion, TV Director and a Vietnamese cameraman watch monitors. A television director from the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion and a Vietnamese cameraman watching monitors during a programme for ARVN. Television was built into the conduct of the Vietnam War on the transmitting side as well as in American living rooms.
1966 - Az első Orion TV az AT 501, a 30000. darab legyártásakor.. The Hungarian Orion factory marking the thirty thousandth unit of its AT 501, the plant's first television model. The number was worth photographing because it measured how far domestic production had come.
1966 - Naturally... in colour, a look inside a color picture tube factory.. Inside a colour picture tube factory, filmed as an industrial record. The sequence of operations is the whole subject of this facet: glass funnel and faceplate forming, frit sealing, phosphor screening, mask insertion, gun mounting, evacuation and getter flashing, then the ageing racks. A colour tube is thick leaded glass around a hard vacuum, and its weight, depth and danger all follow from that.
1966 - RCA Tube Manufacturing In Lancaster PA (1966). RCA tube manufacturing at Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1966, presented by Fran Blanche from period material. Lancaster was one of the RCA tube plants, and this is the kind of company film that shows the ageing racks and the getter flash that photographs almost never catch.
1967 - SYND 9 9 67 MANY NATIONS SHOW EXHIBITS AT SYRIAN TRADE FAIR. Exhibits from many nations at the Syrian trade fair in September 1967, from the AP archive. Rental bundles the set, the aerial, the repair and the replacement into a weekly payment, which is why the trade was enormous and why it died when sets became reliable.
1967 - Petran-Patent-Figure2-cutout. A figure from a United States patent filed in 1967 and granted in 1970, with a red bar added to mark the Nipkow disc in the drawing. The scanning disc was still being patented into the 1960s, decades after it had lost television, because it remained useful in scanning microscopy.
1967 - Culte: Les 1ères images de la télévision couleur en France le 01/10/1967 | Archive INA. The first colour images on French television, 1 October 1967, from the French national audiovisual institute. The claim that SECAM was chosen by the Soviet bloc to stop citizens watching Western television has no documented support; East Germans simply bought PAL decoders. The standards war was substantially a patent royalty war.
1967 - Vietnamese civilians watch TV at Saigon market. The Vietnamese government has provided a TV set in the Saigon Market place, so that the local populace may watch the nightly RVN TV broadcasts. NARA 111-CCV-230-CC40607.
1967 - Vietnamese civilians watch TV on the Saigon riverfront. The Vietnamese Government has provided a TV set along the waterfront, which receives the nightly broadcast from RVN TV studio. Local crowds come on foot, and by vehicle to watch the news and drama that is aired nightly. NARA 111-CCV-230-CC40608.
1967 - Vietnamese civilians watching TV at Saigon market. The Vietnamese Government has provided a TV set in the Saigon Market Place, so that the local populace may watch the nightly RVN TV broadcasts. NARA 111-CCV-230-CC40609.
1967 - 1967: The Man With a HOME COMPUTER | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive. A man with a home computer in 1967, from Tomorrow World. Domestic screens before the home computer were televisions, and the two converge from here.
1967 - Televisore a transistor, bianco e nero, portatile, 12 pollici - Brionvega Doney 12".. Apparecchio in materiale plastico ABS di colore rosso con profili arrotondati e smussati con cinescopio da 12 pollici autoprotetto. Nella parte superiore si trovano i comandi d'uso per l'accensione, la regolazione di volume luminosità contrasto e inquadratura, la scelta UHF/VHF, il selettore per l'antenna, la selezione dei canali VHF e UHF preselezionati (selettore rotante con le lettere da A ad H). Nella parte superiore si ha anche una maniglia estraibile in metallo.
1967 - Building A Tektronix Ceramic CRT 1967. Building a Tektronix ceramic CRT in 1967. The ceramic envelope is a variant on the usual glass, and the film records a construction method that never reached consumer televisions.
1968 - 1968: The Whole World in a Box | Towards Tomorrow | BBC Archive. The Whole World in a Box, a 1968 BBC programme about television itself, treating the set as the subject. The archive names who claims what and adjudicates nothing, because the question of who invented television conflates the idea, the mechanical demonstration, the all-electronic camera and the commercial system.
1968 - Vietnam War on television. An American couple watching Vietnam War footage on a television in their living room. The set is positioned as furniture and the war appears inside it, which is the arrangement that changed how the conflict was argued about at home.
1968 - Watching Vietnam War Footage. A man and woman watching documentary footage of the Vietnam War on television. Vietnam is routinely called the first television war, and this is the domestic end of that claim: the fighting arriving in an ordinary sitting room.
1968 - B219 Keracolor television, designed by Arthur Bracegirdle, manufactured by Group Systems, 1968 - Design. A Keracolor spherical television designed by Arthur Bracegirdle and manufactured by Group Systems in 1968, held by the Design Museum in London. The tube sits inside a sphere on a separate base, so the set reads as an object in the round rather than as a cabinet against a wall.
1968 - Televisore a transistor, bianco e nero, portatile, 17 pollici - Brionvega Volans 17.. Apparecchio in materiale plastico ABS di colore bianco con profili arrotondati e smussati poggiante su uno zoccolo cilindrico nero. Il cinescopio da 17 pollici con deflessione a 110° è incassato nella scocca in plastica A destra dello schermo è inserito l'altoparlante ellittico protetto da una griglia in plastica nera. Sotto all'altoparlante si trovano i comandi per l'accensione, la regolazione di luminosità, contrasto, volume, un selettore rotante per la scelta dei canali preselezionati e uno per la sintonia Il circuito interno di funzionamento è completamente transistorizzato e comprende 24 diodi a cristallo più uno per EAT, 34 transitor e un raddrizzatore di potenza a ponte.
1968 - 1968 HOW VACUUM TUBES are Made: English Electric Valve Co EEV Television Radio Radar CRT Cameras. A 1968 film on how vacuum tubes are made at English Electric Valve. By this date the domestic set was going solid-state, but valve manufacture continued for transmitting and specialist use.
1969 - Rubin-111 April 1969. Setting up a first class Rubin-111 television receiver with remote control, made by the Moscow Television Plant, in April 1969. Soviet sets were graded by class, and a first class receiver with remote control was near the top of what was available domestically.
1969 - Evoluon Promotie Film (1969) | Eindhoven | Techniek Museum Philips | Full HD 1080p | Carillon Film. The 1969 promotional film for the Evoluon, the Philips science museum in Eindhoven, in a period when the company was presenting its own technology to the public. Panel manufacturing follows set manufacturing east with roughly a decade of lag, which is why the fabs are now where the assembly lines already were.
1969 - 1969 - when man landed on the moon for the first time. Archive coverage of the 1969 landing, from Associated Press. The image of a whole street gathered round one set describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
1969 - Lyndon Johnson Watches Apollo 11 Launch, 1969 Moon Landing, HD. Lyndon Johnson watching the Apollo 11 launch on a monitor in 1969. The aerial is part of the domestic hardware: rooftop arrays, indoor rabbit ears and later the satellite dish all had to be fitted, aimed and adjusted.
1969 - Az Orion gyár új színes TV készüléke a Colorion, alkotójával Szász Gerő vezető konstruktőrrel.. The Orion factory's new colour set, the Colorion, presented with its lead designer Szász Gerő. Orion was Hungary's television manufacturer and this was its domestic colour model.
1969 - Man on the Moon: Apollo 11 Moon Landing as it was Broadcast (1969) | ITN Special. The Apollo 11 moon landing as it was broadcast in 1969, from ITN. The moon landing is the second great communal viewing event and the one that made a television feel necessary rather than optional.
1969 - WATCH: Footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. Footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 landing as transmitted. Stan Lebar team built the lunar camera; what households saw was the output of purpose-built television hardware in an environment nothing else survived.

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