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.

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  1. - 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.
  2. - 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.
  3. - 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.
  4. - 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.
  5. - 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.
  6. - 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.
  7. - 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.
  8. - 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.
  9. - 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.
  10. - 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.
  11. - 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).
  12. - 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.
  13. - 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.
  14. - 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.
  15. - 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.
  16. - 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.
  17. - 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.
  18. - 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.
  19. - 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.
  20. - 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.
  21. - 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.
  22. - 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.
  23. - 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.
  24. - 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.
  25. - 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.
  26. - 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.
  27. - 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.
  28. - 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.
  29. - 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.
  30. - 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.
  31. - 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.
  32. - 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.
  33. - 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.
  34. - 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.
  35. - 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.
  36. - 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.
  37. - 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.
  38. - 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.
  39. - 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.
  40. - 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.
  41. - 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.
  42. - 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.
  43. - 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.
  44. - 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.
  45. - 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.
  46. - 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.
  47. - Involucro di televisore - Brionvega Black ST201.. Cubo nero realizzato in metacrilato trasparente fumé. Nella parte superiore si trovano i comandi d'uso per l'accensione, la regolazione di volume luminosità e contrasto, la selezione dei canali VHF e UHF preselezionati. Sul retro si hanno le prese per il collegamento alla rete elettrica, alla batteria interna ricaricabile, ai canali VHF e UHF, per un altoparlante esterno, il selettore per antenna interna o esterna (300 Ohm).
  48. - TV-t minden iskolának! akció 1000. televízióját Zele Ferenc a Népszava főszerkesztő helyettese adja át egy. akció 1000. televízióját Zele Ferenc a Népszava főszerkesztő helyettese adja át egy Csongrád megyei tanyai iskolában.
  49. - Victor company of japan JVC, videosphere, 1970-71. The JVC spherical set of about 1970, held in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The tube sits inside a helmet shaped shell on a separate base, so the object reads as a sculpture rather than as furniture. It is displayed as an applied art object.
  50. - Ультразвуковая линия задержки SECAM УЛЗ-64-5 вскрытая, Светлана. 64 microsecond glass delay lines for SECAM colour television, made by Svetlana in the Soviet Union from 1971 into the 1990s. SECAM transmits the two colour signals on alternate lines, so a receiver must store one line for 64 microseconds to have both available at once, and this component is what does the storing.
  51. - DDR VEB Fernsehgerätewerke Straßfurt Fernseher COLOR 21 HO Verkaufsbeleg 1973 über 3500 Mark. A sales receipt from the VEB Fernsehgerätewerke plant at Staßfurt in East Germany for a Color 21 receiver, priced at over 3,500 Mark in 1973. The figure is the point here: a colour set cost several months of an average East German wage.
  52. - Hungary. An Orion AT 403 Tisza television being carried by a man with a bicycle in Hungary. Getting a set home was itself an event when few households had a car.
  53. - RIAN archive 77629 Worker's family. The family of a worker at a calculating and control machine factory, in a standard apartment in Kyiv. The set is one of the fixtures the standard flat was meant to contain, photographed as evidence of a normal Soviet standard of living.
  54. - TV-511 television, Sony, Tokyo, 1977, plastic cabinet, metal - Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln - Cologne,. A Sony television of 1977 held in a design collection, its plastic cabinet trimmed in metal. Japanese manufacturers were by this point designing the case as a consumer product in its own right rather than as a box built around the tube.
  55. - VIDEOTON TC 1607 Tünde televíziókészülék.. A Videoton TC 1607 Tünde receiver, made in Hungary. Videoton was the Hungarian state electronics combine and its sets were sold across the Eastern bloc.
  56. - Televisore e radioregistratore a transistor, portatile - JVC CX - 500EU.. Dispositivo che racchiude un televisore e un radioregistratore. La scocca del dispositivo è in plastica grigia con maniglia per il trasporto utilizzata anche come piedistallo per posizionare in maniera inclinata l'apparecchio e facilitarne l'uso La parete frontale è occupata dallo schermo 5 pollici del cinescopio a colori, dai comandi di selezione delle frequenze televisive e radiofoniche con relative scale di sintonia e dai comandi d'uso del registratore Le scale di sintonia riguardano le frequenze TV: VHF L per canali da 2 a 34, VHF H per canali da 5 a 12, UHF per canali da 21 a 69. Per le frequenze radio si hanno onde medie da 51 a 160 x 10kHz, onde lunghe da 15 a 35 x 10kHz, in modulazio.
  57. - Televisore e radioricevitore a transistor, portatile - Orion 7152.. Apparecchio in materiale plastico nero dalla forma stretta e profonda. Nella parte superiore si ha una maniglia per il trasporto sulla quale si trova un'antenna estraibile orientabile La parte superiore è occupata dallo schermo 5 pollici protetto da un vetro, con paraluce in plastica. Nella parte inferiore si trovano i quadranti di lettura delle frequenze della radio e del televisore che vengono sintonizzati agendo sulle rispettive manopole poste ai lati dell'apparecchio La scala di sintonia per la radio è per frequenze FM da 88 a 108MHz, MW da 54 a 160 x 10 kHz, LW da 150 a 250 kHz x100 (meter da 20 a 12).
  58. - Tvantiga. An old television of the 1980s in a house in Feira de Santana, Brazil. Brazil assembled sets domestically under import substitution policy, much of it in the Manaus free trade zone.
  59. - Vintage Panasonic Travelvision Miniature Black And White Television, Model TR-1010P, 1.5 Inch Diagonal. A Panasonic Travelvision miniature monochrome set with a screen an inch and a half across the diagonal, made in Japan and dated to August 1982 on its own label. The whole receiver is barely larger than the hand that holds it.
  60. - East German pre-1984 DIY PC - complete setup. A home built East German computer based on an MME 80A processor, following circuits published in a book by Manfred Kramer, using a television as its display. Hobbyists used the household set as a monitor because a dedicated display was unobtainable, which is what a television's video input was quietly good for.
  61. - Vintage Sony Watchman Miniature Television, Black & White, Model FD-40A, Made in Japan, 8.25 Inches High x. A Sony pocket television in monochrome, about eight inches tall and under five wide, made in Japan and dated October 1985 on the set itself. Sony's pocket line used a flat tube bent so the electron gun fired along the screen rather than at it.
  62. - Vintage Zenith Miniature Television, Model BT044S, Black & White, Assembled in Mexico, 8.25 Inches Tall x. A Zenith miniature monochrome receiver assembled in Mexico and dated October 1985 on its label. The assembly location is the detail worth noting: by the mid 1980s American brands were building their small sets outside the United States.
  63. - Panasonic Pocket Watch Miniature Television With AM-FM Radio, Model CT-312B, Made In Japan By Matsushita. A Panasonic pocket television combined with an AM and FM radio, made in Japan by Matsushita Electric Industrial around 1986. Combining a tiny screen with a radio was a common way to justify the price of a portable set.
  64. - Московские телевизоры " ТЕМП" в 1986 г.. Moscow-built Temp televisions in 1986, filmed in period. Sets were sold as consoles and highboys with veneered cabinets and doors that closed over the screen, precisely so the television could be denied when not in use.
  65. - Vintage Sony Watchman Miniature Television, Flat Black & White Screen, Model FD-42A, Made in Taiwan,. A Sony pocket television with a flat monochrome screen, made in Taiwan and dated August 1987 on the set. Production had moved from Japan to Taiwan by this point, which the label records plainly.
  66. - Vintage Sony Watchman Miniature Black & White Television, Model FD-10A, Made in Taiwan, Manufacture Date -. A Sony pocket monochrome television made in Taiwan and dated November 1988 on its own label. The flat tube inside is what allowed the case to be this shallow.
  67. - Vintage Sony Watchman Miniature Flat Black & White Television, Model FD-230, 2.7-Inch Screen, Made In. A Sony pocket television with a flat monochrome screen measuring 2.7 inches, made in Taiwan around 1990. It is one of the last generations of pocket set built around a tube rather than a panel.
  68. - Виробництво телевізорів Амітрон (Харків, 1994). Amitron-Samsung televisions, produced in series by InterAMI between 1993 and 1995 in Ukraine. The joint venture put a Korean brand name on sets assembled in a former Soviet plant.
  69. - Televisor 2001. An old cathode ray tube receiver manufactured in 2001. The date matters more than the object: CRT sets were still being built in volume at this point and did not peak in sales until 2005.
  70. - US Navy -N-6669N-004 Cmdr. Ann Clair Phillips addresses guests and media aboard the Pre-commissioning Unit. Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Fla. 6, 2003) -- Cmdr. Ann Clair Phillips addresses guests and media aboard the Pre-commissioning Unit (PCU) Mustin (DDG 89) berthed at the Allegheny Pier on Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola.
  71. - Russian Videosport Console 2. A Russian Elektronika Videosport games console connected to an Elektronika VL100 receiver. The pairing shows the set doing work other than broadcast, which is how many households first used a screen for something interactive.
  72. - Korean.culture-LG.electronics-01. LG television sets displayed at a shop. The stacked wall of identical panels all running the same demonstration loop is the retail format that flat screens produced.
  73. - 2007 osaka. A television in a room at the Comfort Hotel Osaka Shinsaibashi. Business hotel rooms are built to a tight standard specification, and the set is fitted into that specification rather than chosen.
  74. - Aleksander.Zelekson.Rob.Hornstra. Photograph by Rob Hornstra. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2007 - Aleksander Zelekson, a retired policeman, in his living room. From the book: 101 Billionaires (2008).
  75. - Pana Color TH13-R30. A National television receiver in a Japanese hotel that had kept its old fittings unchanged. The set survived because nothing in the room was replaced, which is how period hardware usually reaches the present.
  76. - North Korea - TV. TV in Samjiyon Pegaebong hotel. Broadcasting in North Korea is tightly controlled by the state and is used as a propaganda arm of the ruling Korean Workers' Party. Topics broadcasting on typical day's: - Documentary: "We Will Follow to the End of This World" - Episode of "Great History, Glorious Tradition" - News Report on Kim Jong-il meeting and congratulating KPA battalion commanders and political instructors.
  77. - Capsule hotel capsule back. Inside a capsule in a capsule hotel looking at the back wall. There is a TV in the upper left corner, and there's a locker suitable for a suit along the right wall.
  78. - Nipkows apparat Tekniska museet. An early mechanical-scan television receiver from the 1930s. Dozens of early stations experimented with television broadcasting using these mechanical-scanning systems during the 1920s and 30s. It uses a Nipkow disk, a spinning metal disk with a spiral pattern of holes in it.
  79. - Radebeul-DDR-Museum-RFT-Stassfurt-FernsehGerät-Donja-202-I9351-pCOAn-12-08-2012-1304. DDR-Museum Zeitreise in Radebeul 2012 - Fernsehgerät "Donja 202" vom VEB Fernsehgerätewerke Staßfurt mit UHF-Konverter und Zimmerantenne, hergestellt von 1966 bis ca. 1967 - Einige technische Daten: 47 cm-Bildröhre, 17 Röhren, 2 Transistoren, VHF-Bereiche I und III, UHF vorbereitet, Abmessungen B x H x T: 560 x 430 x 370 mm, Gewicht: 30 Kg.
  80. - 1950's Admiral TV radio console. A 1950s Admiral television and radio console filmed as an object. The furniture framing is verifiable from the hardware itself, which is exactly what this archive is for: the cabinets are the primary evidence and they survive in quantity.
  81. - John Logie Baird's first TV Science Museum, London. Baird's first television apparatus in the Science Museum in London. The surviving equipment is an assembly of salvaged parts including a tea chest and biscuit tin, which is what the first working television was actually built from.
  82. - Saba Ultracolor P37 S51. A Saba Ultracolor filmed in a vintage electronics museum. Saba was one of the German makers that vanished with the rest of that industry.
  83. - Estate Sale: 1960's Zenith & RCA TVs and a 1950's? Freezer. 1960s Zenith and RCA sets found at an estate sale, filmed as found. This is how most surviving consoles actually surface.
  84. - Brionvega Algol 11-Riparazione e digitalizzazione di tv b/n di oltre 40 anni.Repair and restoration. A Brionvega Algol repaired and given a digital input after more than forty years. The Algol tilts its screen up at the viewer like a face, which is the opposite of the console pretending to be furniture.
  85. - Цветной Телевизор "Рекорд 102" СССР 1970 г.. A Rekord 102 colour television from 1970. The mid-century move from wood to Bakelite and then injection-moulded thermoplastics is the manufacturing change that made the small set possible.
  86. - Brionvega Volans 17". A Brionvega Volans filmed as a design object in a vintage electronics museum. Brionvega, with Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper, made the sets that argue hardest that a television is sculpture; exact model designations and dates across the range are not established in the sources.
  87. - early television museum | hilliard ohio. A short visit to the Early Television Museum at Hilliard, Ohio. The portable proper arrives with transistorisation, beginning with the Sony TV8-301 of 1959, the first all-transistor television.
  88. - "Рубин 714" - цветной телевизор СССР 1976 г.. A Rubin 714 colour television from 1976, from a virtual museum of Soviet technology. Rubin was the best known Soviet colour brand.
  89. - "Темп 209М" - черно-белый телевизор СССР 1972 г.. A Temp 209M black and white set from 1972. Model designations and dates for the canonical design sets are not settled in the sources, so this is captioned by what is visible rather than by catalogue number.
  90. - Television receiver for Chromoscopic adapter for television equipment. TV for Chromoscopic adapter for television equipment, pioneer color system for broadcasting, sistema de transmisión televisiva pionero a color. Radio and TV Museum, Palacio de la Cultura y la Comunicación, Zapopan, Jalisco.
  91. - Televisore e ventilatore da tavolo. A television and a table fan inside a pizzeria. The set is mounted high in the corner where it can be seen from every table, the standard position for a screen in a small restaurant.
  92. - Первый советский телевизор. The first Soviet television at the Museum of the World of Time. Sets were sold as consoles and highboys with veneered cabinets and doors that closed over the screen, precisely so the television could be denied when not in use.
  93. - ELVIS SHOT TWO of THESE TVs! - 1973 RCA Radio TV Flip Clock Model AR059Y Repair. A 1973 RCA radio and television flip clock set repaired, one of the small combination objects that the category produced in quantity. The furniture framing is verifiable from the hardware itself, which is exactly what this archive is for: the cabinets are the primary evidence and they survive in quantity.
  94. - Bakelite radios and furniture radio and more at the radio museum. Bakelite radios and furniture radios in a radio museum. Bakelite is the material step that made small sets possible and it arrived in radio first.
  95. - A tour of the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum in Windsor CT. A tour of the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum in Windsor, Connecticut, through its cabinets. Captioned as museum objects rather than period photographs.
  96. - Retro TV : Ferguson TX-7140 ( 1984 ). A Ferguson TX-7140 from 1984, a British set of the late CRT period. By this date the cabinet has become a plastic box and the furniture era is over.
  97. - КВН-49-4. A KVN-49-4 filmed by an owner, with the lens in place. The mid-century move from wood to Bakelite and then injection-moulded thermoplastics is the manufacturing change that made the small set possible.
  98. - Televisore LG 2. An LG television in a day centre. Communal sets in care settings are watched by more people than a household set and are chosen for durability rather than picture quality.
  99. - Televisore Philips 1. A Philips television in a hotel room at the Hotel Excelsior on La Maddalena, Sardinia. Hotel sets are replaced on a commercial cycle rather than when they fail, so they track the state of the market closely.
  100. - Visit to the Early Television Museum. A longer visit to the Early Television Museum, going set by set. Model designations and dates for the canonical design sets are not settled in the sources, so this is captioned by what is visible rather than by catalogue number.
  101. - Первый советский серийный телевизор или КВН 49 без Маслякова. The first Soviet mass-produced television, the KVN-49, examined. The external water-filled lens is the most visually distinctive feature of any mass-produced television and it exists purely because the tube was too small.
  102. - История одного предмета КВН49 ( Телевизор ). The story of a single KVN-49 as an object. Soviet sets survive in quantity because they were repaired rather than replaced.
  103. - Ламповые телевизоры (Tube TV) Выпуск 10. Телевизор Рекорд В310. A Rekord V310 valve television from a museum of valve radio equipment. The mid-century move from wood to Bakelite and then injection-moulded thermoplastics is the manufacturing change that made the small set possible.
  104. - Рубрика "Музейное закулисье" . Популярные телевизоры в СССР марки "Рекорд". г. Электросталь. A museum feature on the popular Soviet Rekord sets, filmed behind the scenes in the collection. Sets were sold as consoles and highboys with veneered cabinets and doors that closed over the screen, precisely so the television could be denied when not in use.
  105. - 1980年代のレトロポップなパイプ家具を開封～組み立ててみた！ デッドストック 開封動画 可愛い 昭和レトロ. Retro pop 1980s Japanese tube furniture unboxed and assembled, the domestic context the set sat inside. The portable proper arrives with transistorisation, beginning with the Sony TV8-301 of 1959, the first all-transistor television.
  106. - Темп 3. Реставрация.. A Temp 3 restored, showing an early Soviet valve set brought back to working order. The furniture framing is verifiable from the hardware itself, which is exactly what this archive is for: the cabinets are the primary evidence and they survive in quantity.
  107. - 1962 Magnavox Stereo Entertainment Console & TV. A 1962 Magnavox stereo entertainment console with television. Radio, phonograph and television in one cabinet is the high point of the furniture era.
  108. - Печатаем модель первого советского телевизора КВН-49. Someone 3D printing a model of the first Soviet television. The KVN silhouette is iconic enough in Russia to be worth reproducing as an object.
  109. - Early Television Museum 2021. A walk through the Early Television Museum. It is the single most important collection of early television hardware open to the public in the United States.
  110. - Sony TV8-301 demo. Made in 1960, first portable Sony television.. A Sony TV8-301 demonstrated working. This is the world first all-transistor television, from 1959, and it is the hinge of the whole portable story: no valves means no warm-up, less heat and a set you can carry.
  111. - Live Tour & digitale Eröffnung: Braun 100. A live tour of the Braun 100 exhibition at the Bröhan Museum in Berlin. Braun work under Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot is the European counter-argument to the American cabinet: the set as a machine that declares itself a machine. Rams was born on 20 May 1932 and is alive, aged 94, having received the World Design Medal in 2025.
  112. - Alexandra Elbakyan at the USSR museum in Sochi in 2021. The photo was made for me by the museum worker. Here I am at the USSR museum in Sochi, 2021.
  113. - 2021-08-19 DDR-Museum Thale 030. DDR-Museum Thale. Fernseh-Standgerät "Forum Super"; hergestellt im VEB RAFENA-Werke Radeberg 1965 bis 1968. Die Kombi-Variante "Forum Super 16" hatte unten ein integriertes Rundfunkgerät.
  114. - TV| 3 hours of Static B&W TV Noise - TV Brionvega Algol 1964. A Brionvega Algol from 1964 running static for hours, filmed as an object. The set is the entire subject of the shot.
  115. - Легенда советского телевидения – «КВН 49». The KVN-49 presented as a legend of Soviet television by a regional museum. Captioned as a museum object; its specifications are not established in the sources.
  116. - JVC 3241 TV Videosphere TV -- Part 1: Disassembly, Testing & Prep.. A JVC Videosphere taken apart, tested and prepared for repair. The Videosphere is the spherical helmet-shaped set of the early 1970s and one of the most collected television objects; its designation and date are not established in the sources.
  117. - JVC 3241 Videosphere TV - Part 3: Clock Repair and Final Assembly. The final assembly of a JVC Videosphere including its clock. Space-age plastic sets are extremely photogenic and were built as objects to be looked at rather than looked through.
  118. - Tombstone, Cathedral, and Coffin Radios from the Museum. Tombstone, cathedral and coffin radios from a museum collection. These cabinet shapes are the direct ancestors of the television cabinet vocabulary.
  119. - Рубин-714 с ПАЛ-декодером. A Rubin 714 fitted with a PAL decoder. Soviet sets used SECAM, and East Germans famously simply bought PAL decoders, which is the decisive evidence against the story that SECAM was chosen as a censorship instrument.
  120. - [ルームツアー][リメイク] 東京郊外2LDKフリーランスデザイナーの一人暮らし/昭和初期の桐箪笥をTVキャビネットにリメイク. A Tokyo flat where an early Showa paulownia chest has been remade as a television cabinet. The set as furniture, still being negotiated in a modern room.
  121. - Televisore Sony da 43 pollici. A new 43 inch Sony television bought to receive channels on the new digital terrestrial standard. A switchover forces a replacement cycle: a working set becomes useless without either a new receiver or a decoder box.
  122. - 1952 Zenith and RCA Vintage TV Shootout. A 1952 Zenith and an RCA compared side by side. Comparing two contemporaries is the clearest way to see how little standardised the cabinet was.
  123. - 1959 World’s First SONY Transistor TV - Model 8-301W. A Sony 8-301 filmed as a working object. Sony sold over four million portable television sets worldwide by 1960 according to the source, which is the beginning of Japanese dominance.
  124. - Sony Trinitron KV-20V80 1998 20 inch S-Video CRT TV Overview Retro Gaming Calibration Vintage. A 1998 Sony Trinitron twenty inch set with S-Video, looked at specifically for retro gaming. Late Trinitrons are the most sought-after consumer CRTs because they combine a good tube with modern inputs.
  125. - TV Brionvega Mito 22 Pansound Noce - RGB Restored!. A Brionvega Mito 22 restored with an RGB input. Keeping an Italian design set usable means adding a modern input, which is now the standard compromise in this scene.
  126. - 第468回　昭和40年代の家具調カラーテレビいろいろの巻　パナカラー　キドカラー　ネオカラー　[1ch]　【ザ・昭和レトロチャンネル】. A Japanese retro channel on Showa-era furniture-style colour televisions. The Japanese domestic cabinet tradition is its own design history and is almost never covered in English.
  127. - Televisore Sinudyne. A Sinudyne television in the waiting room of the outpatient clinic at Macomer, Sardinia. Waiting rooms kept sets in service for years after households had replaced them.
  128. - телевизионный приемник КВН 49 4 Т1. A KVN 49 4 T1 television receiver, filmed in detail. Model designations and dates for the canonical design sets are not settled in the sources, so this is captioned by what is visible rather than by catalogue number.
  129. - 1969 GE Porta Color TV at the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut. A 1969 GE Porta Color at a museum in Connecticut. The Porta Color was an early attempt to make colour portable, and it is captioned here as a museum object.
  130. - Televisor Philco Predicta. A Philco Predicta shown in the Suburbia exhibition at the CCCB in Barcelona. The Predicta put the tube in a swivelling housing on a slim base instead of burying it in a wooden box, which is why it is still the most recognisable American set of its era. It is displayed here as a museum object.
  131. - Televisore United. A United television in room 109 of Casa San Giuseppe in Trastevere, Rome. Guest house sets are bought to a budget and kept until they fail, so they lag the market by several years.
  132. - CRT Spotlight - The RCA Console TV - The television that everyone's grandmother owned. A look at the RCA console television, described as the set everyone grandmother owned. The veneered console with doors that close over the screen exists so the television could be denied when not in use.
  133. - Vladimir Zworykin's 1954 RCA 21CT55 At The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut. A 1954 RCA 21CT55, associated with Zworykin, at the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut. The RCA CT-100 reached dealers in April 1954; the Westinghouse H840CK15 had reached the New York area on 28 February 1954 at 1,295 dollars, roughly 15,526 dollars in 2025 money, and sold thirty sets in its first month.
  134. - 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron EVER!!!. A 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R examined as a luxury object. Trinitron model designations after the first are documented, but its launch price and initial production numbers are not asserted here.
  135. - ​基隆故事館日立電視機，播放中興隧道歷史畫面。. A Hitachi receiver in the Keelung Story House in Taiwan, playing footage of the history of the Zhongxing tunnel. The set is part of a museum display rather than in domestic use.
  136. - САМЫЕ популярные ТВ от ТК 1 до Рубина: ИСТОРИЯ советского ЭКРАНА.. A survey of the most popular Soviet televisions from the earliest models to the Rubin. Model dates and specifications in Soviet sources are not independently established here.
  137. - Bush TV22F 9 inch television receiver, made by Bush Radio Limited, England.. A Bush TV22F nine inch receiver made by Bush Radio Limited, filmed as an object. The TV22 is the canonical British Bakelite set; its exact year is not established in the sources and is not asserted here.
  138. - 6 САМЫХ УНИКАЛЬНЫХ ТЕЛЕВИЗОРОВ СССР. Six unusual Soviet televisions presented together as objects. The portable proper arrives with transistorisation, beginning with the Sony TV8-301 of 1959, the first all-transistor television.
  139. - Магия КУ202 - История легендарных ЦМУ «Прометей», «Радуга» и «Спектр». A Russian history of the Prometheus, Raduga and Spectrum colour music units. Not televisions, but the same cabinet tradition and the same plants, and a good corrective to treating Soviet consumer electronics as uniform.
  140. - Литовское чудо СССР, история телевизора «Шилялис». The story of the Lithuanian-built Shilyalis portable television. Lithuania also held the Ekranas tube plant, one of the largest in the Soviet bloc.
  141. - Condizionatore Argoclima senza unità esterna e televisore LG. An LG television and an Argoclima air conditioner in the refectory of a church confraternity at Cuglieri, Sardinia. Both are wall mounted appliances fitted into a room that predates either of them.
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