ETF - Other Resources

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Books and Magazines relating to early television

Online films and videos

Mechanical Television
Adventures in Cybersound Dead Media Project	Introduction to the History of Television TV before 1900
Baird's Independent Television	La Radiovision - Roger Dupouy's site
Baird Television Iain Baird's Site	Levend Netherlands
Chicago Television History	MZTV Mechanical TV
Jim Hawes mechanical TV site	Narrow Band Television Association Britain
Henry Ford Museum Pictures Wayne Bretl	Peter Yanczer's site
History of Television Tom Genova	The World's Earliest Television Recordings - Restored

Electronic Television Before WW2 - U.S.
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Early TV in Philadelphia	MZTV 1939 World Fair
The Farnsworth Chronicles	San Francisco Museum History of TV in California
History of Television Tom Genova	Zworykin's 1933 Photo Album

Electronic Television Before WW2 - Outside the U.S.
Alexandra Palace Television Society	History of Italian TV
BBC Test Cards	Levend Netherlands
Envisioning the Audience: perceptions of early German television's audiences, 1935-1944 William Uricchio	Marconi Television History
The Evolution of TV TV in Japan	Mexican TV History (in Spanish)
German TV in 1935	Steve Ostler's Vintage Televisions
Henk Dijkstra's Cathode Ray Tubes Netherlands	The Story of Television from Alexandra Palace
History of the BBC - Television Arrives	Victor's World of Television Early TV and the BBC

TV from 1946-56
405 Alive U. K.	The DuMont Network
ABC-TV at Gore Hill in the Fifties Australia	History of Television Tom Genova
Bell System Microwave Networks

Early Color Television
CT-100 Restoration Pete Deksnis	Fred Hoffmann's CT-100 Restoration
History of Early Color Television Ed Reitan	Smith, Kline & French Medical Color TV Unit
History of Television Tom Genova	Westinghouse 15 Inch Color Marlin Mackley

Early Television Cameras, Video Recorders and Studio Equipment
Broadcast Camera Museum Europe	Kris Trexler's RCA TK-41 Color TV camera
Chalk Hill Educational Media	Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera U. K.
Chuck Pharis's Camera Site	Museum of Broadcast Technology Woonsocket, RI
Eyes of a Generation	RCA Equipment Archives
Golden Age Television Recreations U. K.	LabGuy's World:Video Tape Recorders before Betamax and VHS

Museums Specializing in TV/Radio
American Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, NY	Museum of Radio & Technology Huntington, WV
Antique Wireless Association Rochester, NY	MZTV Toronto
Auman Museum Ohio	National Media Museum Britain
David Sarnoff Library Princeton, NJ	NHK Broadcast Museum Japan
John Rivers Communication Museum South Carolina	Pavek Museum of Broadcasting St. Louis Park, MN
Kuba Museum Germany	Radio-TV Museum Bowie, MD
Marcel's TV Museum Netherlands	TV Dinner Club Museum Akron, OH
Museum of Broadcast Communications Chicago	Vintage Radio & Communications Museum of Connecticut
Museum of Broadcast Technology Woonsocket, RI

Museums with TV Displays
Canada Science and Technology Museum Ottawa, Canada	Powerhouse Museum Australia
Henry Ford Museum Detroit	Smithsonian Institute Washington, D. C.
Indiana State Museum Indianapolis	South Carolina State Museum Columbia
The New England Wireless and Steam Museum RI

Early TV Collections
Chuck Azzalina	Bob Grasso
Dave Blewette	Fred Hoffmann
British prewar/early postwar collection	Kevin's Vintage TVs
David Boynes U. K.	Marlin Mackley
Eric Coon	Dave May
Sonny Clutter	Mark Nelson's Boosters and Converters
Dave's Vintage TVs	Graham Parks U.K.
Steve Dichter	Pat's TV Museum Netherlands
Roger DuPouy France	Luc Sirois Canada
Eckhard Etzold Germany	Jon Steinhauser
Jonathan Evans Collection U. K.	Eric Walsh
John Folsom	Ian Watson U. K.

Other Links
Collectics Antiques & Collectibles Directory	TV Lamps
Collectors Weekly Television page	Video History Project
Experience Columbus	What You Need to Know About Classic TV
Hot vs. Not	What You Need to Know about Inventors
Radio Museum