If we have a television in 2021 the chances are that it will be a large LCD model, flat and widescreen, able to display HD images in stunning clarity. Before that we’d have had a CRT colour TV, them ...

Replay: Before the cathode ray tube won the first ever video format war there was mechanical TV, and riveting programming such as man turning his head captivated early viewers. Here's how it worked.

If you mis-spent your teenage years fishing broken televisions from dumpsters and either robbing them for parts or fixing them for the ability to watch The A Team upstairs rather than in the living ...

Insight into John Logie Baird and early television experiments. How Paul Nipkow’s scanning disc paved the way for mechanical television. Why electronic systems replaced mechanical television. When ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jenkins mechanical television ...