Early Television Museum
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The Early Television Museum is a museum of early television receiver sets
. It is located in Hilliard
, a suburb of Columbus
, Ohio
, USA.
The museum has over 150 TV sets including mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 30s; pre-war British sets from 1936-39; pre-war American sets from 1939-41; post-war American, British, French and German sets from 1945-60; and early color sets from 1953-57 including an RCA Victor CT-100
. Many of these sets are working. It is the largest collection in the United States.
The Dave Johnson collection of early television cathode ray tubes is also at the museum, along with early TV studio equipment, which includes a working 60-line flying spot scanner
TV camera. Visitors are pictured by this camera as they would have appeared on mechanical television in 1931.
The museum is a non-profit foundation, operated by the Early Television Foundation.
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
. It is located in Hilliard
Hilliard, Ohio
Hilliard is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The population was 28,435 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Hilliard is located at . It is bordered on the east by Upper Arlington, on the north by Dublin, on the south by Galloway and Columbus, and to the west lies open farmland...
, a suburb of Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, USA.
The museum has over 150 TV sets including mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 30s; pre-war British sets from 1936-39; pre-war American sets from 1939-41; post-war American, British, French and German sets from 1945-60; and early color sets from 1953-57 including an RCA Victor CT-100
Ct-100
For the Bajaj motorcycle, see Bajaj CT 100Introduced in April 1954 the RCA CT-100 was the second all-electronic consumer color television set in the USA, preceeded by the Westinghouse H840CK15 by a few weeks. The color picture tube measured 15 inches diagonally. The viewable picture was just...
. Many of these sets are working. It is the largest collection in the United States.
The Dave Johnson collection of early television cathode ray tubes is also at the museum, along with early TV studio equipment, which includes a working 60-line flying spot scanner
Flying spot scanner
A flying-spot scanner uses a scanning source of a spot of light, such as a high-resolution, high-light-output, low-persistence Cathode Ray Tube , to scan an image, usually from motion picture film or a slide...
TV camera. Visitors are pictured by this camera as they would have appeared on mechanical television in 1931.
The museum is a non-profit foundation, operated by the Early Television Foundation.