Again, it's amazing how so many 'new' ideas are so old!
Author: gilligans1
1938: Where Is Television Now?
Engineering types will love this great discussion on transmission techniques. Coaxial, long wave and more…
1939: New York TV Set Receives London Signal
When I first saw this, I was very curious how this could possibly happen with…
1939: Exploding the Television Boom
Wow! This nine-page article from Mechanix Illustrated is full of pictures, but the story is…
1940: Second Philo T. Farnsworth Interview
This four-page interview found Philo at age 33 and comes four years after his first…
1946: Mechanical Color Wheels or Electronic Color?
The question of the day: the choice between the CBS color wheel (sequential field system)…
1947 Color TV Outlook
This is one of the first articles I've seen that starts to move the thought…
1949: What Every Family Wants To Know About TV
This is about as good as it gets! These 11 pages from the January 1949…
1952: TV Goes to the Conventions
Popular Mechanics shows in detail how one of the 1952 political conventions would be televised…
1954: Behind the Split Screens of TV
Great article on how the first coast-to-coast, split-screen telecast of the 1954 Oscar ceremony was…
1955: The DuMont Electronicam
A one-page article on the DuMont Electronicam and its use on Jackie Gleason's classic program…
1955: Ernie Kovacs’ Special Effects
Here is a 1955 article on some of the special effects Ernie Kovacs used on…
1957 Projection Screen TV
The more of this old stuff we see, the more the new ideas seem "not…
1964: Watch Your Favorite Show ANY Time!
This short article in Popular Science is about the early home video tape offerings. It's…
The History Of The Moving Image
From the Thraumatrope to the Video Walkman, the milestones are all here, in a brilliant…
The Dawn Of Tape
An in-depth look at the development of videotape as we know it. This 24 page…
NBC’s Chimes History, 1950-1978
From NBC's internal files, here are documents on NBC's iconic signature sound as it has…
“Radio Age,” 1948-1950
A 290 page collection of RCA's in-house journal of advances in mass communication technology from…
GE Television Broadcasting Equipment, 1944
General Electric looks to the postwar years in this 1944 catalog.
NBC Facilities Rate Book, 1959
Want to do a program at one of NBC's facilities? Here's how much it would…
1953: Televising Today’s News
Behind the scenes of John Cameron Swayze's "Camel News Caravan."