Great displays of early mechanical through early color televisions. Early Television Foundation, 5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, OH 43026 Phone: 614-771-0510 www.earlytelevision.org
I still remember going with my mother to visit her uncle about 1950 & saw his 3 inch tv screen. I never dreamed 70 years ago I would have my own HD TV in full colour & be able to watch any film or programme I wanted!! Or have a remote control whereby I can pause the film & make a cup of tea!!
NOW I'm feeling old! Born in 1950, we always had TV. I think my parent's first was an Emerson, tiny screen. They bought it while I was an infant, it moved into our home in the Long Island suburbs, and entered into my young memory. It lasted a year or two, my guess is that it died when I was 3 or 4 years old. Next came the Dumont, much bigger screen, and centered in the living room. That had to have been around 1954 or 55. We were on good terms with the repair man, who visited us 2-3x a year to replace a tube or two. Parents went into minor heart failure once, when the picture tube went, and had to be replaced. In 1959, my father was in a National Science Foundation program in Portland Oregon, We bought a 19" portable TV to go with us for the summer, and it became our main TV as the big box in the living room gradually faded into oblivion. Obviously we wanted color (my brother and I) but at $400-$500. it was totally beyond my parent's reach. And programming was minimal, and color quality, despite what you might have been told, was absolutely awful. Red was more like a blushing orange, faces were always green, and everything always had a rainbow halo on it. Off to college in the 1970s, one of the first 12" SONY Trinitrons entered the house, and lasted forever. Color was excellent, picture quality was better than B&W, and it was affordable. I could go through the rest of my life viewed through the TV, but I won't. Suffice it to say that I have a fantastic, Korean made 65" 4K (color) flat screen hanging on the wall - a science fiction dream for a kid of the 1950s.
@@paxhumana2015 Pretty sure the username is not to be taken at face value since the 08/15 is german slang used to describe drab, inferior and dated things.
This is such an amazing collection, thanks for going there and sharing it to the rest of us where the chances of actually going are slim. I'd always thought the US papered over Baird's mechanical system from the UK, and claimed that Farnsworth invented TV, but this place puts everything into context beautifully.
Thank you for taking me down somewhat of a memory lane because I‘m only 68 but in the very early 1960s we actually had two TVs in our house both black and white good sizes but the one in the rumpus room I don’t remember ever being fixed but the one in the living room which was absolutely huge in a cabinet with doors in front finally got that fixed and I remember coming home every day and watching Dark Shadows in black-and-white and it was my favorite show. Kids don’t realize how spoiled they are out today but I wouldn’t give up my childhood for anything. Thank you so much.
A wonderful presentation... What a marvelous collection...We got our 1st color TV in 1962, a Zenith 21 " - we were the 1st ones in our neighborhood to have one... Folks would come over on Sunday nights to watch Disney & the few color programs that were available.... It was a very big deal... The mighty Zenith was a tube eater.... Every 4-5 months you'd turn it on & then it it would start smoking.. The tv guy would come over w/his big box of tubes & tools, put a bunch of new stuff in, & then re-magnitize the screen w/his magnitizer. ... Very Buck Rogers tech back then...I was 10 yrs. old . I'd watch him do his thing, ask him a million questions & generally drive him nuts... Fun to be a kid. Great to see this.
I grew up with post WW2 TV, my Dad got an RCA franchise about 1947, right after I was born. I heard my Dad telling stories about the late 40 assembling TVs, apparently the chassis and CRT came in a different box than the cabinet, I was too young to know about that personally. I remember when we got the first color TV in town and we took it home to watch, the earliest TV show I remember watching was The Wonderful World of Color, wow, a whole hour of color TV a week! LOL I remember the earliest color TVs actually had a hinged top like the hood on a car, with a prop to hold it up, to make it easier to service, that thing had a lot of tubes in it! I remember selling TVs when RCA was the only color TV on the market, customers would go look at other brands and they would say it wasn't perfected yet, so the best thing was when RCA started licensing color TV tech to other brands, we would tell people to look at the back of the competitors TV, they all had labels saying Made under license from RCA. On the moon flights when they got the buggy, RCA made the color camera mounted on the buggy, there was a big RCA right on the side. It was quite an interesting time in the TV business! Look at TVs now, they have changed so much in the last 30 years! Really interesting tour of that museum.
I admire these independent/private museums in America. My biggest wish is they have adequate fire prevention and suppression equipment. It would be a shame to lose any museum of americana. Thank you for this video.
My mother worked for Bendix Radio here in Baltimore and then Westinghouse Aerospace. It was before my time but she built her first television about 1950 when they had vacuum tubes. She told me she didn't even had a case around it . I was born in 55, This would had been right up her ally. I don't even have a picture of it. She was an electronics guru.
Wonderful and interesting presentation..as a kid that grew up between 1955 & 1965 I have seen many of these in action, what a great collection I am happy to see someone preserved some of our TV history. Thank you so much for putting this together for us.
Wish it would have been a longer video with a little more time spent showing the models up close yes i know its museum but i will never make it there and the way the worold is might not ever get the chance please another video i really enjoy vintage
Wow, what a fascinating place. Ever since I was very little, i've loved learning about old TV's, my dad and grandfather were always tinkering with old sets when I was a kid.
I've been here twice. It was way bigger than I was expecting. Incredibly cool to see all the different types of TVs over the years. It's an outstanding collection and highly recommend visiting even if you only have a mild interest in TV.
What life has 'television' got left ? We turned off our (2nd) receiver in 2020 as obsolete. Anything of that nature comes via the Internet and a laptop connected to a VDU and a hifi amp. The sound is amazing :)
I entered the broadcast engineering field in the 1960s. Worked in radio engineering then transferred to television engineering. Boy, that RCA TK42 Camera took two “healthy, strong” engineers to put it back on the pedestal after repairs. Only senior “qualified” engineers were allowed to replace and set up the camera tubes. Good presentation. Hope many more will enjoy watching. Great to grow up and learn during those days. Thank you. Steve Molnar, W8ANJ.
From Worthington originally. I have been to the museum twice and would go again. I strongly recommend anyone visiting the metropolitan Columbus. Ohio area to visit this marvelous museum and become educated in the science of television.
Thanks Randy! I'm fascinated by the ingenuity that went into any older technology and TV's is definitely one of the most innovative. Bringing the museum to people from all over the world who wouldn't be able to go in person is very very much appreciated! 😊
As a person that was born quite a while back, I find it fascinating that the people of my generation will be a. the last people that have known what a CRT television is like, b. the last people to have known was an analog television station is like, and c. the last people that will have had devices on their televisions that also included other built in devices, such as radios, VCR players, DVD players, and such. I wonder how televisions will be in the 2030s and 2040s, that is, if we do not blow each other to bits, or if televisions are not considered obsolete, by that point in human history? The consensus is that both scenarios are, unfortunately, equally likely.
My father was a ww2 control tower/radar tech. After the war he was early into tv repair. I bet, if he was still with us, that he would have a lot to say about many of those receivers.
Great museum and presentation. My grandfather built a TV in 1940 using a Allen B. Dumont tube. That set was huge. We used it until 1960. That year he got an RCA New Vista color set that had 40 vacuum tubes in it! To this day I still use a flat screen CRT TV (JVC) for looking at vintage DVDs & JVC tapes. I have a phonograph from 1898.
Thanks for a great look at these! I had family members who worked in television from 1948 through the late '60s. TV sets and cameras of this era are like relatives to me. It was a fascinating era.
Excellent video! I would like to visit the museum someday, myself. The only thing missing from the museum is early television in Germany. The 1936 Olympics were broadcast. Hitler used TV for propaganda, and later those running the system used TV to strengthen the morale of wounded troops.
@@thecarl168 1936 in Berlin more often the "Zwischenbildverfahren" was used. In one go film was exposed, developt and scanned. The Iconoscope tube (patented 1923 by Vladimir Zworykin) was to weak in 1936.
I remember as a child, visiting an uncle about 1950 who had a a very early television. The screen was circular and about five inches diameter. Things were moving fast though. By about 1953 I was watching Hopalong Cassidy in my own living room on a 17" screen. And now (2022) I am still watching those same Hopalong Cassidy shows on the Western Channel!
great fun seeing this. I watched president Eisenhower inauguration on my grandparents 1950 RCA. I completely rebuilt it and keep it safe in my storage shed.
absolutely fascinating presentation , in australia we didnt see much in the way of home colour tv until the 1980's , we really were years behind the world, how quickly one forgets , i recall at age 4 watching on a huge black and white in our lounge room with my mum as armstrong walked on the moon ,our tv repair man neighbour lent us a colour set to watch the 1976 olympics , what an amazing guy he was ,he repaired everything ,now it seems nothing is repairable , thank you so much for taking the time to share , people like you that share like this restore my faith a little in this inet world that has developed
I lived in Dublin for a few years and never knew this place was existed! I may have to stop and visit this place when the weather breaks! Thanks for posting this video!
I love stuff like this. Got into broadcast engineering being the only one left. I love the stories from the engineers that have come before me. A dying breed it seems.
Hi Randy : as a ham ( w6cde) at about 1947 while in high school I helped Bill Sadler W6WCD build the first ham TV station in San Francisco. He got it on the air a week before Kpix channel 5 was up so was S.F. ‘ s first TV station. He later became chief engineer @ KRON TV S.F. I have some clippings if you are interested. Loved the old sets as a kid I worked for Hoffman Easyvision TV . Hal
Great video. Was neat seeing all these different models and the way sets evolved over time. Thank you for sharing this, and also thanks to the folks maintaining the museum.
Wow that brought back memories. The wonderful world of color. I worked for Western Union in television operations to do satellite feeds for the local networks in California. I really enjoyed that job.
I've known about ETF online for nearly 20 years, if I ever go for a holiday to America one of these days, the ETF museum is certainly on top of my itinerary! Thanks for sharing this great video tour of the museum!
Yes! I was born in '53. And my Mom told me stories of how she had to put me in my play pen next to the TV set. She said it was the only time of day when she could take a break! I'd stay quiet just staring at the set, amused by the sound and pictures!
I was born in 1954 my dad and grand father were in the antenna business I am the 3rd generation in San Diego. I wish you could expand your museum to cover antennas and rotors. The test pattern was not only for broadcasters but mainly for antenna companies to make it easier to collect money from there customers after the antenna job was done, seeing how most TV programs didn't start broadcasting till 4 or 5 PM. Home owners didn't want to pay for an antenna until they could see a picture. My dad's company was Pacific Antenna and he hired all my aunts uncle's and my cousins for his antenna business. In San Diego most antennas were 40 feet above your roof top with a rotor a big combination UHF, VHF and FM antenna. The reason for the 40foot + height was to get 10 more channels from Las Angelis LA plus the 5 channels in San Diego. In 1962 my dad Leonard Schlick ordered a new 100 foot crane truck with a basket where he could replace or do maintain any of his customer needs. Dad sold Pacific Antenna in the 70's, all my relatives went there different ways but still doing antennas, such companies as Custom Antenna, Antenna Engineering, Franks Antenna, Goodrow Antenna and mine was Specific Antenna. In the 70's I started my company Specific Antenna, my aunt and uncles would send me the jobs they were not interested in like Ham Operators, CB'ers and military jobs and that was fine by me. I did towers, ships, military antennas and any job they didn't want and I had a blast! For many years I worked for my Aunt Betty Valdez at Custom Antenna, 2 men per truck. On any given day Jerry Valdez my cousin and I could install 5, 6 and 7 antennas a day. 40 foot of telescoping EMT, guyed wires, rotor, antenna connected to your TV in just over 1 hour. Love your museum wish there was more to the story. I want to also thank Wayne McKenna at Coast Antenna, Jay Goodwin at Mission Hills Radio &TV and my cousin Mark Valdez at Custom Antenna, Emmet and Josephine Tobin at Edge Water Cable TV my grandmother and grandfather, I am sure there are many more. These were the best years of my life! Look at where we are now 500 channels and nothing to watch. Years ago I thought the Indian Test Pattern was a TV show.
I remember as a teen in the 60's I told my school consular I wanted to find a job in a tv/radio repair shop. Howard's tv paid very well at the time their was lots of work putting up antennas and servicing the new color sets.
Thanks for sharing this. In the mid-70s I was hired by a network to build a broadcast station. I remember driving to another state and I had one day to take and pass all the exams for my FCC Licenses. I don’t know how I did it. The station was filled with broken and destroyed equipment. It took 5 months to build the station working alone with very little funding. It got done. Retired now and it was fun going down memory lane.
@@leftylou6070 Well, Class 1, 2 and 3. A person that tested with me did all the tests. Plus he got his pilots license that morning. This was after he just graduated medical school and passed the boards. He was beyond brilliant and was planning to join Doctors Without Boarders. This was in 1976.
We had a very troublesome Crosley 12 inch 1949 model. It was always in the repair shop with bad tubes. I think my folks spent a fortune trying to keep it working. We finally got a 1958 Philco 21 inch console. That was wide screen TV, to us. Oh, and I came along the year of that first television. I hope I was the better bargain! Need to mention our local station, Wews channel 5 in Cleveland. They've been on the air since 1947; what a history they have!
amazing friggin amazing. i am 60, so i remember all the b+w stuff and dad fixing our tv,by phoning my uncle, from the public phone box., n then dad buying parts to fix the tv. my uncle was a tv repairman, hundreds of miles away from us!!!! Young people today have no clue, unfortunately about all of this. hopefully a lot will find these programmes. otherwise they just dontrealise where their flat screens came from and how long ago!!!!!!
Thanks for this Randy! I've been really interested in historical television STUFF lately, and it's great to see there's a whole museum to this stuff. Definitely want to check it out for myself! The creativity and tech behind them is fascinating. Some day I'd love to play with a narrow band TV signal - do my own amateur mechanical TV (I doubt that museum would demonstrate any of those technological dinosaurs). Really shows how this stuff is taken for granted today!
From Columbus's F. & R. Lazarus department store in 1949, our family bought the RCA Victor T100 "Anniversary Model," which Lazarus was offering with a free RCA Victor 45 r.p.m. record changer and our choice of a dozen Red Seal and/or blue-label 45 discs. The changer had an unshielded cable that plugged into the television's amplifier, and a switch on the rear of the set allowed us to select "TV" or "Phono." We were the third family in our Clintonville neighborhood to own a television set.
Just amazing how fair electronics has came from those days of tubes to transistors to IC circuits reminds me of a course were at the end you had to build a 5 tube radio and pull all the parts and the teachers would make sure that bad parts were place along with good parts , so you had to check each part as well. You sound like one of those instructors who had it down when it came to teaching electronics. Thanks for your time and posting this video well done and I love the old TV & Radios of that time for they were all so works of art to me all hand build , Repairmen would come to the house and service any TV set or radio not working, I remember all most ever drug store had the big self serve tube checker as well Thanks
Fabulous little film, I so enjoyed watching it.. I was a TV engineer in the 1960's in the UK.. My aunt had one of the early TV's that was displayed in your museum, bought by her before the last war.. I have never seen another one... Still a radio Ham G7NIX though getting a bit long in the tooth now to be on air much... Been in electronics most of my life, and latterly worked for ICL computers before their demise.. Long retired now, but still enjoy a little tinkering....!
Absolutely fantastic tour through the years of television. I'm impressed that so much equipment actually survives and is still operational. It is amazing how far we have come satellite and flat screens just amazing.
As someone whose been obsessed with mechanical televisions for year I can’t believe this place is so close to where I live. Gunna plan a trip for my next day off
Being a radio and TV technician (and later and instructor) employed by RCA beginning in 1952, much nostalgia was brought to me in this well done video. No disrespect, but I must say that there were 3 "color" systems (not just 2); as the government decided, which system would become standard. Of course RCA won, because it was all electronics; where as the CBS and Zenith systems required mechanical pictures. Imagine having motors in our TV's, to spin a huge red, blue and green colored wheel; at a high RPM. Wow! What about the noise and maintenance? Whoowee! Sadly, color TV's took years to produce good pictures. If my memory is correct, it wasn't until 1964, until RCA brought out a color picture TV; that was as good as B & W TV's. And it wasn't until HDTV came out that TV was better than the 1964 color TV. IE: the best fidelity they had was 480I (not 480P). There couldn't be 480P because it was an "Interlace" system; rather than a "Progressive" system. Of course HDTV came out with 1080P. And the rest is history. I am proud to say that I was with RCA for 33 yrs; and a part of this incredible advance in technology. I loved it like a child loves candy. I met the engineer that helped develop the "Tri-color" picture tube ("Kinescope"). I would have lasted longer with RCA, but GE bought RCA in 1988 and got rid of ALL of RCA's management; which I was one of them by then. Broke my heart. My sincere thanks for your making this video.
My Dad used to do T.V. repair work as a side line business. This really brought back a lot of memories. I recently sold my 1951 Hoffman cabinet model which hopefully will be restored. Great video and thank you for posting.
I had a work mate who at the end of the war was guarding German prisoners in Britain. As the war was over they were allowed materials to keep themselves occupied (no pun intended) , my work mate was amazed when one prisoner built a small TV.
I was on a Stratcom site (6 GI's) n Korea in 1969, I was the AFKN tech on that mountaintop microwave site. We used the Raytheon KTR-1000 remote microwave system to relay the TV signal down the spine of S Korea, we received or signal from Taejon (48 miles) and relayed it to Taegu (26 miles). Keep in mind this system was designed for remote broadcasting so was usually used over hops of just a few miles (line of sight). Being on a 3,500 ft mountain helps with the range.
Was in Wonju @ Cp Long, 84-85. Always called AFKN ‘Another F****ng Korean Nightmare’. The AFKN tech there said they were trying to shoot a 50 mile microwave shot w/ equipment designed for 25 miles. Every time it rained or snowed hard, the signal would go out
@@jamessimms415 One problem with our shot from Taejon was it was not quite line of sight. There was a mountain between that just blocked our line of sight, to get reception we both had to shoot at the fringe because the microwave signal would bend just a bit (fresnell effect). The result was a somewhat noisy but usable signal. I once saw a letter from a corps commander bitterly complaining about our "entertainment" forcing his men out to the village at night. The programming was pretty lame but 20 years old guys are a lot more interested in girls and booze than reruns of 195's sitcoms. AFRTS had a small budget and bought what they could afford.
I believe this is the best informative TH-cam video I have ever seen! My family had a 1948 Black and white TV which I think I saw for a moment in the back ground! Neighbors would come over to watch! I was not born until 52, but have fond memories of this TV until it's total breakdown around 1960. It did electoce the repairman before he deemed it impossible to repair!
The evolution of radio transmitted TV in Germany is completely ignored. 1936 the Olympic games became transmitted to hundred TVs distributed in Berlin and its surrounding. This was the official start of the German TV program but stopped during begin of WW2.
Super interesting! As a kid in the 1950s, we had a 10" TV, maybe an Admiral. Several years later, an RCA 17". Of course both were black and white sets.
I grew up in smalltown Montana where we were always behind the technology serving the more populated areas, especially in regard to television because of the long, little-populated distances the picture signal would have to travel. Around the late 1950's, the local hardware store had an operating TV set in its store window. At night, people would go down to Main Street and look at the TV even though no audio was present...just to marvel at the invention. We lucked out and around 1959 we went by train to New York City to stay in a relative's apartment while they were on a long trip. They must have had 20 channels...it was just amazing. Back to Montana - the early 1960's, I believe - we had only one television channel and it signed off in the late afternoon. Now my nearly obsolete pocket phone takes much better video than those big studio cameras that were used in the 1960's.
I really enjoy old time radio BUT I grew up with television through the 1950s. This tour video was wonderful. I hope to visit the Early Television museum in person some day. I am currently restoring my 1950 Magnavox CT-224 chassis. I have it all re-capped but there is something wrong. So far; I just cannot find that problem. I think I need help with this one. Thanks again. Gary W9TOF.
Even though I've been into this hobby for many decades and researched much info, I still found this to be a very enjoyable video. Well done. It might surprise people of value of many of these sets. The early electronic pre-war sets are in the $10K to $15K+ range alone. To see them all contained in one area is a sight to behold. Not only for historical reasons, but aren't they really beautiful looking pieces? The 1939 RCA TRK-9 is my favorite. A John Vassos masterpiece of cabinet design.
It is quite a collection. I spend a few hours in there. I wished that some of the old televisions were running. They have a conference in May (I think) and they fire up more of the televisions.
Thank you for sharing!!! I didn't even know this place existed. It is hard to believe how far we've advanced in such a short time as I watch this on my cell phone!
Thank you for a wonderful video. I myself was a VTR technician in 1968, when I played the tape people thought it was magic. I will never make it to Ohio, so your video means a lot to me. I am somewhat lucky, I live in San Francisco, 25 miles from the Computer Museum, witch I visited many times.
Thank you so much for this video. I also want to thank the people who run the museum. What an incredible journey it has been, from the earliest black-and-white TVs to being able to watch this video streaming on youtube (on your phone, if you like), all in less than 100 years! There are people still alive who have lived through this all.
Correct. I was born in 19 oh 44. First TV I ever saw was in a store display window in the early '50s. So much snow you could barely recognize the picture. We got our first TV in 1958. Could only get one channel and had to carry the antenna up the side of the hill to get a signal. I studied solid state physics in grad school (late 60s) and we speculated that in the future a TV would be a flat screen you could hang on the wall. We were right.
As a baby kid, what intersected most in tv programming were the cameras! There's one such museum in my town Torino in Italy and I've seen the nhk in Tokio. My uncle built the first experimental systems and showed to Mussolini
As a youth I worked in an antique store and learned how to repair tube radios, then on to TV sets. Stuff like Dumont, Atwater Kent. I also built an Heath Kit TV. Today a TV is as simple to repair as swap out a PC board. My best repair was a Samsung TV 60". I baked the main board for 10 min at 350 degrees F. The set has been working fine for 4 years now.
I still remember going with my mother to visit her uncle about 1950 & saw his 3 inch tv screen. I never dreamed 70 years ago I would have my own HD TV in full colour & be able to watch any film or programme I wanted!! Or have a remote control whereby I can pause the film & make a cup of tea!!
And now you can watch TV on your smartphone on a 5 inch screen. Wow, two more whole inches in only 70 years!
When smartphones came we began evolving... just backwards!
@@Metrofarquhar mostly 6 inch
@@maitrik334gd2 Thats what she said.
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Born in 1947 .one of my earliest memories was watching an RCA TV with about a 9 inch screen
We all thought that was amazing
Me laughing at the tiny picture tubes then realising I'mwatching this on my phone
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I do that on my watch :o
What comes around - goes around!
Now a 50' set is considered tiny ,we've now got sets that can up to 85' oled and produce 8k resolution.
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Heh. Thinking back to the days of the JUMBOTRON made back in the early 1980s now ...
NOW I'm feeling old! Born in 1950, we always had TV. I think my parent's first was an Emerson, tiny screen. They bought it while I was an infant, it moved into our home in the Long Island suburbs, and entered into my young memory. It lasted a year or two, my guess is that it died when I was 3 or 4 years old. Next came the Dumont, much bigger screen, and centered in the living room. That had to have been around 1954 or 55. We were on good terms with the repair man, who visited us 2-3x a year to replace a tube or two. Parents went into minor heart failure once, when the picture tube went, and had to be replaced. In 1959, my father was in a National Science Foundation program in Portland Oregon, We bought a 19" portable TV to go with us for the summer, and it became our main TV as the big box in the living room gradually faded into oblivion. Obviously we wanted color (my brother and I) but at $400-$500. it was totally beyond my parent's reach. And programming was minimal, and color quality, despite what you might have been told, was absolutely awful. Red was more like a blushing orange, faces were always green, and everything always had a rainbow halo on it. Off to college in the 1970s, one of the first 12" SONY Trinitrons entered the house, and lasted forever. Color was excellent, picture quality was better than B&W, and it was affordable. I could go through the rest of my life viewed through the TV, but I won't. Suffice it to say that I have a fantastic, Korean made 65" 4K (color) flat screen hanging on the wall - a science fiction dream for a kid of the 1950s.
50s must have been such an exciting time for tv buyers
I believe our family got our first TV in 1958. I was around 4 years old.
Been in Columbus all my life and never knew this museum existed. After this COVID stuff is done, I definitely want to check it out.
After the great reset ?
@@Statist0815 , like you should be talking, given your username.
@@paxhumana2015 Pretty sure the username is not to be taken at face value since the 08/15 is german slang used to describe drab, inferior and dated things.
Dont bother hilliard sucks and its turning into the hilltop
Me either!
I remember how special it was on a vacation to stay in a motel that had color t.v.
We used to go to uncle's house from night's to watch wild wild west and hogan's heroes in color
@@rsprockets7846 Batman was advertised in colour.
@@mimicotom big thing back then to announce program in color
Born in 69, We had a 13inch BW, but do remember The Color Tv signs for Hotel rooms stays.
Yeah I forgot about the Color TV Motel signs! Lol. I grew up on B and W well into the 1970s.
This is such an amazing collection, thanks for going there and sharing it to the rest of us where the chances of actually going are slim. I'd always thought the US papered over Baird's mechanical system from the UK, and claimed that Farnsworth invented TV, but this place puts everything into context beautifully.
Thank you for taking me down somewhat of a memory lane because I‘m only 68 but in the very early 1960s we actually had two TVs in our house both black and white good sizes but the one in the rumpus room I don’t remember ever being fixed but the one in the living room which was absolutely huge in a cabinet with doors in front finally got that fixed and I remember coming home every day and watching Dark Shadows in black-and-white and it was my favorite show. Kids don’t realize how spoiled they are out today but I wouldn’t give up my childhood for anything. Thank you so much.
neat old sets
My dad bought a color RCA back in 1959. He said he needed to watch Bonanza in COLOR!! This was a great presentation. Thanks for up-loading it.
A wonderful presentation... What a marvelous collection...We got our 1st color TV in 1962, a Zenith 21 " - we were the 1st ones in our neighborhood to have one... Folks would come over on Sunday nights to watch Disney & the few color programs that were available.... It was a very big deal... The mighty Zenith was a tube eater.... Every 4-5 months you'd turn it on & then it it would start smoking..
The tv guy would come over w/his big box of tubes & tools, put a bunch of new stuff in, & then re-magnitize the screen w/his magnitizer. ... Very Buck Rogers tech back then...I was 10 yrs. old . I'd watch him do his thing, ask him a million questions & generally drive him nuts... Fun to be a kid.
Great to see this.
I grew up with post WW2 TV, my Dad got an RCA franchise about 1947, right after I was born. I heard my Dad telling stories about the late 40 assembling TVs, apparently the chassis and CRT came in a different box than the cabinet, I was too young to know about that personally. I remember when we got the first color TV in town and we took it home to watch, the earliest TV show I remember watching was The Wonderful World of Color, wow, a whole hour of color TV a week! LOL I remember the earliest color TVs actually had a hinged top like the hood on a car, with a prop to hold it up, to make it easier to service, that thing had a lot of tubes in it! I remember selling TVs when RCA was the only color TV on the market, customers would go look at other brands and they would say it wasn't perfected yet, so the best thing was when RCA started licensing color TV tech to other brands, we would tell people to look at the back of the competitors TV, they all had labels saying Made under license from RCA. On the moon flights when they got the buggy, RCA made the color camera mounted on the buggy, there was a big RCA right on the side. It was quite an interesting time in the TV business! Look at TVs now, they have changed so much in the last 30 years! Really interesting tour of that museum.
I admire these independent/private museums in America. My biggest wish is they have adequate fire prevention and suppression equipment. It would be a shame to lose any museum of americana. Thank you for this video.
that is an excellent point. pick your favorite and donate!
My mother worked for Bendix Radio here in Baltimore and then Westinghouse Aerospace. It was before my time but she built her first television about 1950 when they had vacuum tubes. She told me she didn't even had a case around it . I was born in 55, This would had been right up her ally. I don't even have a picture of it. She was an electronics guru.
Wonderful and interesting presentation..as a kid that grew up between 1955 & 1965 I have seen many of these in action, what a great collection I am happy to see someone preserved some of our TV history. Thank you so much for putting this together for us.
Thanks Randy, that's a place I'll likely never see in person but so glad to see it through your camera and narration! de KI6ESH
Wish it would have been a longer video with a little more time spent showing the models up close yes i know its museum but i will never make it there and the way the worold is might not ever get the chance please another video i really enjoy vintage
Wow, what a fascinating place. Ever since I was very little, i've loved learning about old TV's, my dad and grandfather were always tinkering with old sets when I was a kid.
A captivating video made more interesting by your additional commentary. Many thanks for taking the time to make this. 73's 2E0HSI
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I've been here twice. It was way bigger than I was expecting. Incredibly cool to see all the different types of TVs over the years. It's an outstanding collection and highly recommend visiting even if you only have a mild interest in TV.
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I work at a modern TV station... it's nice to see the classics ! Thanks for the vid !
What life has 'television' got left ? We turned off our (2nd) receiver in 2020 as obsolete.
Anything of that nature comes via the Internet and a laptop connected to a VDU and a hifi amp. The sound is amazing :)
I entered the broadcast engineering field in the 1960s. Worked in radio engineering then transferred to television engineering. Boy, that RCA TK42 Camera took two “healthy, strong” engineers to put it back on
the pedestal after repairs. Only senior “qualified” engineers were allowed to replace and set up the camera
tubes. Good presentation. Hope many more will enjoy watching. Great to grow up and learn during those
days. Thank you. Steve Molnar, W8ANJ.
Thanks. Those were a beast. The video has become very popular.
From Worthington originally. I have been to the museum twice and would go again. I strongly recommend anyone visiting the metropolitan Columbus. Ohio area to visit this marvelous museum and become educated in the science of television.
Thanks Randy! I'm fascinated by the ingenuity that went into any older technology and TV's is definitely one of the most innovative. Bringing the museum to people from all over the world who wouldn't be able to go in person is very very much appreciated! 😊
They have a great collection
As a person that was born quite a while back, I find it fascinating that the people of my generation will be a. the last people that have known what a CRT television is like, b. the last people to have known was an analog television station is like, and c. the last people that will have had devices on their televisions that also included other built in devices, such as radios, VCR players, DVD players, and such. I wonder how televisions will be in the 2030s and 2040s, that is, if we do not blow each other to bits, or if televisions are not considered obsolete, by that point in human history? The consensus is that both scenarios are, unfortunately, equally likely.
My father was a ww2 control tower/radar tech. After the war he was early into tv repair. I bet, if he was still with us, that he would have a lot to say about many of those receivers.
Great museum and presentation. My grandfather built a TV in 1940 using a Allen B. Dumont tube. That set was huge. We used it until 1960. That year he got an RCA New Vista color set that had 40 vacuum tubes in it! To this day I still use a flat screen CRT TV (JVC) for looking at vintage DVDs & JVC tapes. I have a phonograph from 1898.
Thanks for a great look at these! I had family members who worked in television from 1948 through the late '60s. TV sets and cameras of this era are like relatives to me. It was a fascinating era.
Excellent video! I would like to visit the museum someday, myself. The only thing missing from the museum is early television in Germany. The 1936 Olympics were broadcast. Hitler used TV for propaganda, and later those running the system used TV to strengthen the morale of wounded troops.
the camera use at the olympique were based on Philo Fansworth design
@@thecarl168 1936 in Berlin more often the "Zwischenbildverfahren" was used. In one go film was exposed, developt and scanned.
The Iconoscope tube (patented 1923 by Vladimir Zworykin) was to weak in 1936.
I saw a picture of a camera it was use outside it was an electronic camera not a film , obviously because it was outside they had enough light
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@@XE1GXG I could read it, thanks to Google Translate. This is something not well known outside of Mexico. Thanks for sharing!
I have Charles Francis Jenkins books from 1929-Radiovision, Radiomovies, Television. Amazing
I remember as a child, visiting an uncle about 1950 who had a a very early television. The screen was circular and about five inches diameter. Things were moving fast though. By about 1953 I was watching Hopalong Cassidy in my own living room on a 17" screen. And now (2022) I am still watching those same Hopalong Cassidy shows on the Western Channel!
great fun seeing this. I watched president Eisenhower inauguration on my grandparents 1950 RCA. I completely rebuilt it and keep it safe in my storage shed.
THANK YOU for making this video!!! Fascinating history from a museum I would never be able to visit in person. This was as good as being there.
its awesome how we went from small black and white tvs to giant color tvs
absolutely fascinating presentation , in australia we didnt see much in the way of home colour tv until the 1980's , we really were years behind the world, how quickly one forgets , i recall at age 4 watching on a huge black and white in our lounge room with my mum as armstrong walked on the moon ,our tv repair man neighbour lent us a colour set to watch the 1976 olympics , what an amazing guy he was ,he repaired everything ,now it seems nothing is repairable , thank you so much for taking the time to share , people like you that share like this restore my faith a little in this inet world that has developed
Thanx for sharing. I've always loved how beautiful the wood is on older TV sets. This would be a great field trip for schools to take.
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I lived in Dublin for a few years and never knew this place was existed! I may have to stop and visit this place when the weather breaks! Thanks for posting this video!
I love stuff like this. Got into broadcast engineering being the only one left. I love the stories from the engineers that have come before me. A dying breed it seems.
Totally awesome video! Thanks so much for the tour!
Hi Randy : as a ham ( w6cde) at about 1947 while in high school I helped Bill Sadler W6WCD build the first ham TV station in San Francisco. He got it on the air a week before Kpix channel 5 was up so was S.F. ‘ s first TV station. He later became chief engineer @ KRON TV S.F. I have some clippings if you are interested. Loved the old sets as a kid I worked for Hoffman Easyvision TV . Hal
I can't wait to go back. I put a new picture tube in the telejuke set about 10 years ago. Time flies, hopefully we have a convention this year.
I was born in 1959, so old enough to experience TV in the 1960’s! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences!
I came along in the 60s. My grandad had the first color set on the block. Had a lot of friends. Today I have an early 50s Dumont set in my collection
this documentary was very interesting... I never new i used to repair tube tvs back in the late 70s early 80s
Great video. Was neat seeing all these different models and the way sets evolved over time. Thank you for sharing this, and also thanks to the folks maintaining the museum.
Nicely done. Thank you. I started in commercial TV in 1971. Oh, the tales we could tell...
Thank you so very much for taking the time to film and share this. I really appreciate it. Absolutely fascinating.
Wow that brought back memories. The wonderful world of color. I worked for Western Union in television operations to do satellite feeds for the local networks in California. I really enjoyed that job.
I've known about ETF online for nearly 20 years, if I ever go for a holiday to America one of these days, the ETF museum is certainly on top of my itinerary! Thanks for sharing this great video tour of the museum!
Yes!
I was born in '53. And my Mom told me stories of how she had to put me in my play pen next to the TV set. She said it was the only time of day when she could take a break! I'd stay quiet just staring at the set, amused by the sound and pictures!
I was born in 1954 my dad and grand father were in the antenna business I am the 3rd generation in San Diego. I wish you could expand your museum to cover antennas and rotors. The test pattern was not only for broadcasters but mainly for antenna companies to make it easier to collect money from there customers after the antenna job was done, seeing how most TV programs didn't start broadcasting till 4 or 5 PM. Home owners didn't want to pay for an antenna until they could see a picture. My dad's company was Pacific Antenna and he hired all my aunts uncle's and my cousins for his antenna business. In San Diego most antennas were 40 feet above your roof top with a rotor a big combination UHF, VHF and FM antenna. The reason for the 40foot + height was to get 10 more channels from Las Angelis LA plus the 5 channels in San Diego. In 1962 my dad Leonard Schlick ordered a new 100 foot crane truck with a basket where he could replace or do maintain any of his customer needs. Dad sold Pacific Antenna in the 70's, all my relatives went there different ways but still doing antennas, such companies as Custom Antenna, Antenna Engineering, Franks Antenna, Goodrow Antenna and mine was Specific Antenna. In the 70's I started my company Specific Antenna, my aunt and uncles would send me the jobs they were not interested in like Ham Operators, CB'ers and military jobs and that was fine by me. I did towers, ships, military antennas and any job they didn't want and I had a blast! For many years I worked for my Aunt Betty Valdez at Custom Antenna, 2 men per truck. On any given day Jerry Valdez my cousin and I could install 5, 6 and 7 antennas a day. 40 foot of telescoping EMT, guyed wires, rotor, antenna connected to your TV in just over 1 hour. Love your museum wish there was more to the story. I want to also thank Wayne McKenna at Coast Antenna, Jay Goodwin at Mission Hills Radio &TV and my cousin Mark Valdez at Custom Antenna, Emmet and Josephine Tobin at Edge Water Cable TV my grandmother and grandfather, I am sure there are many more. These were the best years of my life! Look at where we are now 500 channels and nothing to watch. Years ago I thought the Indian Test Pattern was a TV show.
I remember as a teen in the 60's I told my school consular I wanted to find a job in a tv/radio repair shop. Howard's tv paid very well at the time their was lots of work putting up antennas and servicing the new color sets.
i used to watch the indian test pattern when i was 5 or 6 years old
Thanks for sharing this. In the mid-70s I was hired by a network to build a broadcast station. I remember driving to another state and I had one day to take and pass all the exams for my FCC Licenses. I don’t know how I did it. The station was filled with broken and destroyed equipment. It took 5 months to build the station working alone with very little funding. It got done. Retired now and it was fun going down memory lane.
Not just one but all of them, eh? I don't know how you did it either.
@@leftylou6070 Well, Class 1, 2 and 3. A person that tested with me did all the tests. Plus he got his pilots license that morning. This was after he just graduated medical school and passed the boards. He was beyond brilliant and was planning to join Doctors Without Boarders. This was in 1976.
@@davidlarson2534 Oh I get it they dropped the morse code part of the exam.
DJ's build radio stations, you still have skills?
@@lucasrem No. that was over 45 years ago. I’m retired now.
We had a very troublesome Crosley 12 inch 1949 model. It was always in the repair shop with bad tubes. I think my folks spent a fortune trying to keep it working. We finally got a 1958 Philco 21 inch console. That was wide screen TV, to us. Oh, and I came along the year of that first television. I hope I was the better bargain! Need to mention our local station, Wews channel 5 in Cleveland. They've been on the air since 1947; what a history they have!
amazing friggin amazing. i am 60, so i remember all the b+w stuff and dad fixing our tv,by phoning my uncle, from the public phone box., n then dad buying parts to fix the tv. my uncle was a tv repairman, hundreds of miles away from us!!!!
Young people today have no clue, unfortunately about all of this. hopefully a lot will find these programmes. otherwise they just dontrealise where their flat screens came from and how long ago!!!!!!
If there were a museum for museums...this museum would be in it.
Thanks for this Randy! I've been really interested in historical television STUFF lately, and it's great to see there's a whole museum to this stuff. Definitely want to check it out for myself! The creativity and tech behind them is fascinating. Some day I'd love to play with a narrow band TV signal - do my own amateur mechanical TV (I doubt that museum would demonstrate any of those technological dinosaurs). Really shows how this stuff is taken for granted today!
Thanks for the tour. I started studying television broadcasting in 1981. We had some of the equipment shown here,
Amazing museum. Thanks for the tour of my childhood.
From Columbus's F. & R. Lazarus department store in 1949, our family bought the RCA Victor T100 "Anniversary Model," which Lazarus was offering with a free RCA Victor 45 r.p.m. record changer and our choice of a dozen Red Seal and/or blue-label 45 discs. The changer had an unshielded cable that plugged into the television's amplifier, and a switch on the rear of the set allowed us to select "TV" or "Phono." We were the third family in our Clintonville neighborhood to own a television set.
pretty fancy back in the day
It would be a dream come true to visit here!
Fantastic, my dad was a television technician in 50s,60s and 70s in the UK and then Australia loved the info you have shared. Thanks
Just amazing how fair electronics has came from those days of tubes to transistors to IC circuits reminds me of a course were at the end you had to build a 5 tube radio and pull all the parts and the teachers would make sure that bad parts were place along with good parts , so you had to check each part as well.
You sound like one of those instructors who had it down when it came to teaching electronics.
Thanks for your time and posting this video well done and I love the old TV & Radios of that time for they were all so works of art to me all hand build , Repairmen would come to the house and service any TV set or radio not working, I remember all most ever drug store had the big self serve tube checker as well
Thanks
This was a real treat to watch, thank you.
Fabulous little film, I so enjoyed watching it.. I was a TV engineer in the 1960's in the UK.. My aunt had one of the early TV's that was displayed in your museum, bought by her before the last war.. I have never seen another one... Still a radio Ham G7NIX though getting a bit long in the tooth now to be on air much... Been in electronics most of my life, and latterly worked for ICL computers before their demise.. Long retired now, but still enjoy a little tinkering....!
What a wonderful musuem. I'd love to visit, but I am in the U.K. I am with you in spirit!
Absolutely fantastic tour through the years of television. I'm impressed that so much equipment actually survives and is still operational. It is amazing how far we have come satellite and flat screens just amazing.
As someone whose been obsessed with mechanical televisions for year I can’t believe this place is so close to where I live. Gunna plan a trip for my next day off
Being a radio and TV technician (and later and instructor) employed by RCA beginning in 1952, much nostalgia was brought to me in this well done video.
No disrespect, but I must say that there were 3 "color" systems (not just 2); as the government decided, which system would become standard. Of course RCA won, because it was all electronics; where as the CBS and Zenith systems required mechanical pictures. Imagine having motors in our TV's, to spin a huge red, blue and green colored wheel; at a high RPM. Wow! What about the noise and maintenance? Whoowee!
Sadly, color TV's took years to produce good pictures. If my memory is correct, it wasn't until 1964, until RCA brought out a color picture TV; that was as good as B & W TV's. And it wasn't until HDTV came out that TV was better than the 1964 color TV. IE: the best fidelity they had was 480I (not 480P). There couldn't be 480P because it was an "Interlace" system; rather than a "Progressive" system. Of course HDTV came out with 1080P. And the rest is history.
I am proud to say that I was with RCA for 33 yrs; and a part of this incredible advance in technology. I loved it like a child loves candy. I met the engineer that helped develop the "Tri-color" picture tube ("Kinescope"). I would have lasted longer with RCA, but GE bought RCA in 1988 and got rid of ALL of RCA's management; which I was one of them by then. Broke my heart.
My sincere thanks for your making this video.
Thanks
@@K7AGE You're welcome. I made a mistake in the comment. I started with RCA in 1954; NOT 1952. Sorry bout that.
Nice Job Randy!!! I really enjoyed this walk down Memory Lane.
My Dad used to do T.V. repair work as a side line business. This really brought back a lot of memories. I recently sold my 1951 Hoffman cabinet model which hopefully will be restored. Great video and thank you for posting.
I had a work mate who at the end of the war was guarding German prisoners in Britain. As the war was over they were allowed materials to keep themselves occupied (no pun intended) , my work mate was amazed when one prisoner built a small TV.
Excellent tour! Thank you.
I began working in TV in SF in 1969, right after I got my first phone license. so much of the stuff from the 60's I used.
I like the preservation of old tech. Things like TV's, game systems, computers, and camera's.
I visited that museum in June of 2017! I loved it!
This is the first I have heard of mechanical TV. Amazing.
Lovely display they have there, TV was such an art.
thank you for a terrific tour loved every second
I was on a Stratcom site (6 GI's) n Korea in 1969, I was the AFKN tech on that mountaintop microwave site. We used the Raytheon KTR-1000 remote microwave system to relay the TV signal down the spine of S Korea, we received or signal from Taejon (48 miles) and relayed it to Taegu (26 miles). Keep in mind this system was designed for remote broadcasting so was usually used over hops of just a few miles (line of sight). Being on a 3,500 ft mountain helps with the range.
Was in Wonju @ Cp Long, 84-85. Always called AFKN ‘Another F****ng Korean Nightmare’. The AFKN tech there said they were trying to shoot a 50 mile microwave shot w/ equipment designed for 25 miles. Every time it rained or snowed hard, the signal would go out
@@jamessimms415 One problem with our shot from Taejon was it was not quite line of sight. There was a mountain between that just blocked our line of sight, to get reception we both had to shoot at the fringe because the microwave signal would bend just a bit (fresnell effect). The result was a somewhat noisy but usable signal.
I once saw a letter from a corps commander bitterly complaining about our "entertainment" forcing his men out to the village at night. The programming was pretty lame but 20 years old guys are a lot more interested in girls and booze than reruns of 195's sitcoms. AFRTS had a small budget and bought what they could afford.
I believe this is the best informative TH-cam video I have ever seen! My family had a 1948 Black and white TV which I think I saw for a moment in the back ground! Neighbors would come over to watch! I was not born until 52, but have fond memories of this TV until it's total breakdown around 1960. It did electoce the repairman before he deemed it impossible to repair!
Love those art deco cabinets.
The evolution of radio transmitted TV in Germany is completely ignored. 1936 the Olympic games became transmitted to hundred TVs distributed in Berlin and its surrounding. This was the official start of the German TV program but stopped during begin of WW2.
Wow! Incredible piece of history. I learned a lot from this video. Keep them coming.
Super interesting! As a kid in the 1950s, we had a 10" TV, maybe an Admiral. Several years later, an RCA 17". Of course both were black and white sets.
I grew up in smalltown Montana where we were always behind the technology serving the more populated areas, especially in regard to television because of the long, little-populated distances the picture signal would have to travel. Around the late 1950's, the local hardware store had an operating TV set in its store window. At night, people would go down to Main Street and look at the TV even though no audio was present...just to marvel at the invention. We lucked out and around 1959 we went by train to New York City to stay in a relative's apartment while they were on a long trip. They must have had 20 channels...it was just amazing. Back to Montana - the early 1960's, I believe - we had only one television channel and it signed off in the late afternoon. Now my nearly obsolete pocket phone takes much better video than those big studio cameras that were used in the 1960's.
What an amazing museum, there is so much priceless history in there. Thank you for the video
I really enjoy old time radio BUT I grew up with television through the 1950s. This tour video was wonderful. I hope to visit the Early Television museum in person some day. I am currently restoring my 1950 Magnavox CT-224 chassis. I have it all re-capped but there is something wrong. So far; I just cannot find that problem. I think I need help with this one. Thanks again. Gary W9TOF.
We need a video on Early Television Program museums!
Even though I've been into this hobby for many decades and researched much info, I still found this to be a very enjoyable video. Well done. It might surprise people of value of many of these sets. The early electronic pre-war sets are in the $10K to $15K+ range alone. To see them all contained in one area is a sight to behold. Not only for historical reasons, but aren't they really beautiful looking pieces? The 1939 RCA TRK-9 is my favorite. A John Vassos masterpiece of cabinet design.
It is quite a collection. I spend a few hours in there. I wished that some of the old televisions were running. They have a conference in May (I think) and they fire up more of the televisions.
Thank you for sharing!!! I didn't even know this place existed. It is hard to believe how far we've advanced in such a short time as I watch this on my cell phone!
Thank you for a wonderful video. I myself was a VTR technician in 1968, when I played the tape people thought it was magic. I will never make it to Ohio, so your video means a lot to me. I am somewhat lucky, I live in San Francisco, 25 miles from the Computer Museum, witch I visited many times.
Thank you so much for this video. I also want to thank the people who run the museum. What an incredible journey it has been, from the earliest black-and-white TVs to being able to watch this video streaming on youtube (on your phone, if you like), all in less than 100 years! There are people still alive who have lived through this all.
Correct. I was born in 19 oh 44. First TV I ever saw was in a store display window in the early '50s. So much snow you could barely recognize the picture. We got our first TV in 1958. Could only get one channel and had to carry the antenna up the side of the hill to get a signal.
I studied solid state physics in grad school (late 60s) and we speculated that in the future a TV would be a flat screen you could hang on the wall. We were right.
Wow - fabulous museum! Thank you for the tour.
Really interesting, especially from a UK perspective. thanks for this!!
I like the double breath of the narrator for each sentence. Imagine talking nonstop each time someone pushes a button......Thank you for the tour!
Thansk for the tour! I’ll place this museum on my bucket list! :D
Fascinating, thank you from Australia (we got B&W in 1956 & Colour in 1975 PAL)
As a baby kid, what intersected most in tv programming were the cameras! There's one such museum in my town Torino in Italy and I've seen the nhk in Tokio. My uncle built the first experimental systems and showed to Mussolini
'Check out these first color tv sets from the early 1950s'.
-shows black and white portions of 'The Wizard of Oz' :)
As a youth I worked in an antique store and learned how to repair tube radios, then on to TV sets. Stuff like Dumont, Atwater Kent. I also built an Heath Kit TV. Today a TV is as simple to repair as swap out a PC board. My best repair was a Samsung TV 60". I baked the main board for 10 min at 350 degrees F. The set has been working fine for 4 years now.
I built a Heathkit color TV too, it worked first time that it was turned on.