Sunday, June 17, 2007

Origins Of Television

Television first appeared as a mechanical apparatus, that consisted of a spinning disk and photo-electric vacum tubes.

The video "signal" was taken from a standard radio receiver and the audio "signal" was taken from a separate radio receiver.

The video quality was very poor due to the mechanical process involved.

The world's earliest television recordings


Pioneers and developers of Mechanical Television

Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

John Logie Baird

Charles Francis Jenkins


Additional Information

Mechanical television

Early television stations

Early / Mechanical Television Systems

Principals of mechanical television explained

Russian booklet on building your own mechanical television set

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