"Television" on a 1933 documentary

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Originally Posted by decojoe67

This is the best they would've had at that time - if you could talk RCA to sell you one of these experimental CRT sets!

Many of these prototype and field test sets were taken home by the engineers after they served their purpose, so some did survive because of this. This particular 1931 set survived in a warehouse in Indiana until being rescued from the dumpster by an RCA engineer who recognized it.