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Old 01-27-2011, 03:05 PM
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If this unit were actually from the 1930s it wouldn't have had a CRT, as, from what I understand regarding pre-war television, any TV from the 1930s was probably a scanning disk set. All-electronic television did not appear until after the end of World War II.
Actually fully electronic televisions started around 1930. By about 1932-33 mechanical television was all but dead, and except for a few rare cases, development was only on electronic television. All American field test and production televisions from 1935 on were electronic.
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