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NBC – Recent Television Developments, 1940
From none other than Vladimir Zworykin, and R. E. Shelby, here is an engineer's dream…
The Planning & Design of NBC Studio 3H…Home Of Electronic Television
This is TV MEGA HISTORY! In 1935, RCA leaned forward into the development and testing…
THE NBC BUILT, ND-8G CAMERAS
UPDATED March 3, 2023: Around 2010, I found a photo of an odd looking NBC…
1929: Radio Movies in Color
One of the leaders of Bell Labs had an idea of how to show the…
1930: Television Gives Radio Eyes and Ears
Discussions of 1929 TV milestones like 'color over a wire' and other events are described,…
1931: 3-D Television?!
And you thought 3-D television was a new thing. Ha!
1932: David Sarnoff on “Where Television Stands Today”
"Where Television Stands Today" is an 8-page article written for Modern Mechanics by one of…
1933, Where Television Stands Today
Suffice it to say that TV has come a long way, but this 4 page…
1936: First Philo T. Farnsworth Interview
The true father of television as we know it shares his thoughts on the new…
1937: The Truth About Television
Now this is interesting! Here is a Modern Mechanix article from November 1937 that is…
1938: Early Television Makeup
Here are two very interesting articles with great pictures to show what it took to…
1938: Hand-Held Mini TV!
Again, it's amazing how so many 'new' ideas are so old!
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…
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…
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…