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(Internetworking Frequency, 2.4 gigacycles.)

TheOnlyCoolTim — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:36:35 -0800

The Early Television Foundation and Museum Website covers the nascent days of the nation's pastime, with interesting items like mechanical TVs and programming schedules from 1939.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:52:15 -0800

Nice post... Yep, I remember those 50's era TV sets... darn, I remember not even having a TV set... I remember our first remote control TV... a wire with a controller at the end.... jeez, I'm old as dirt....

By: pjern

pjern — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:31:48 -0800

My father's first job was working in an experimental color TV station at the University of Illinois in the very early 1950's. Practical joker that he was, he noticed that they used a bowl of painted wooden fruit to calibrate one part of the color system, and said bowl was placed on a high shelf on the back wall, lit with a camera on it that was turned on as necessary. In other words, no one actually set eyes on the 'fruit' bowl much. (I guess there was no such thing as a Gretag-Macbeth color chart then.) My Dad said it didn't take them too very long to find out who had painted all the fruit different colors one Saturday afternoon, after a broadcast of an Illini football game on a bright magenta field issued forth from the studio.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:56:01 -0800

I love the "RCA and NBC present TELEVISION" schedule HTML and MetaFilter present INTERNET

By: LastOfHisKind

LastOfHisKind — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:07:50 -0800

I can't help but wonder how many people watched "Test Pattern."

By: HappyHippo

HappyHippo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:12:44 -0800

Time for a quick shout out to Philo and even more importantly his brother in law Cliff. Long YTL to one of my all time favorite scenes from one of my all time favorite shows by my all time favorite actor. Yep it's a HappyHippo hat trick. :)

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:58:29 -0800

Transcript Big Dream, Smal Screen, a documentary about Philo Farnsworth.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:01:27 -0800

Interview with Elma Farnsworth.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:03:21 -0800

This also reminds me of the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, which rules.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:29:16 -0800

This has long been one of my favorite websites. Early tv fascinates the heck out of me. It's cool to see the museum not only surviving but actually growing.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:29:47 -0800

This is great, thanks! (And I remember those '50s TVs too, and my Uncle Gene actually made his own "blab-off" wire with a controller at the end.)

By: droplet

droplet — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:49:33 -0800

TV YAY! I don't watch current programming except for a snippet of news and the occasional Law & Order or Doctor Who episode, but I love reading about various aspects of the medium, history being a particular interest. I'm fascinated that there are people out there still experimenting with mechanical television. And there's some other television history sites I like to visit.