Very early CTV?

[Combwork]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Seems like I've heard before that Baird was sorta, uhh, "Difficult", to say the least. "One fry short of a Happy Meal", as we might say here in the States. Seems like that was alluded to in Tim Hunkin's "Secret Life of Machines" segment on "Tellies"...And I've seen a pic of him that makes him look a bit "Disturbed". But don't be insulted, my British colleagues-Edison was kinda "Teched", too.. Sarnoff was a meglomaniac who drove Armstrong to suicide-and Armstrong was reportedly pretty bombastic in his own right. Commander Eugene F. McDonald, the ramrod behind Zenith, was a sorta imperious guy, too, who DESPISED Sarnoff. Seems like a LOT of these guys who developed "Electronics" were pretty much a half-bubble or so off plumb in one respect or another.

I wonder if so much close exposure to high voltage wiring affected them? It's not a totally crazy idea; some people claim that constant exposure to electric pylons can cause depression, mood swings etc.

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by Combwork

I wonder if so much close exposure to high voltage wiring affected them? It's not a totally crazy idea; some people claim that constant exposure to electric pylons can cause depression, mood swings etc.

Could be. But those guys had to be "Pretty Far Gone" to have come up w/some of this stuff in the 1st place..Howard Armstrong's "Thing" was climbing Poles of any/allsorts...The taller & more dangerous, the better...About the only one of the early pioneers that apparently had NO eccentricities was Philo T. Farnsworth..at least none that ever got reported. He was just a simple farmboy, somewhat shy.

[Steve D.]

Being seen in Scotland it is very plausible that it was an early Baird field sequential color set. The British electronics co. Pye used a field sequential system to telecast an experimental color broadcast of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. Doubt the set seen in Scotland was one of the two 1953 color sets which used a crt to display the field sequential image. But who knows? Here is a link to more info on this system: http://www.earlytelevision.org/briti...erimental.html

-Steve D.

[Combwork]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Being seen in Scotland it is very plausible that it was an early Baird field sequential color set. The British electronics co. Pye used a field sequential system to telecast an experimental color broadcast of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. Doubt the set seen in Scotland was one of the two 1953 color sets which used a crt to display the field sequential image. But who knows? Here is a link to more info on this system: http://www.earlytelevision.org/briti...erimental.html

-Steve D.

I don't see how it could have been a crt set; it definitely had a 3 coloured segmented wheel set above a light bulb, probably very high brigtness as it was designed to project an image onto the inside of an opaque screen on the front of the set.

Although it looked brand new, negligible dust inside, and beautiful cabinet the owner had never switched it on and had no intention of ever doing so.

He was obsessed with early TV's and wrote a couple of books about them, but I think he got this set after his last book was published.