Early Television Museum
Established24 July 2000 (2000-07-24)[1][2]
Location5396 Franklin St,
Hilliard, OH
Coordinates40°02′05″N 83°09′42″W / 40.034682°N 83.161757°W / 40.034682; -83.161757
FounderSteve McVoy
OwnerEarly Television Foundation
Nearest parkingOn site (no charge)
Websitewww.earlytelevision.org
Post WWII television sets on display

The Early Television Museum is a museum of early television receiver sets. It is located in Hilliard, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.[3]

The museum has over 150 TV sets including mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 1930s; pre-World War II British sets from 1936 to 1939; pre-war American sets from 1939 to 1941; post-war American, British, French and German sets from 1945 to 1960; and early color sets from 1953 to 1957 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, which hosts an annual conference at the museum.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ (PDF) http://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/etf_articles_of_incorporation.pdf. Retrieved 20 June 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Early Television Museum". Clio. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Wolpin, Stewart (15 May 2017). "Where Old TVs Go to Live". HuffPost. Oath Inc. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Early Television Foundation to host convention". TV Technology. NewBay Media. 20 March 2003. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  5. ↑ O’Neal, James E. (23 May 2013). "Television's Past Comes Alive at Annual Conference". TV Technology. NewBay Media. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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