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Made in USA.
Invented by Philo Farnsworth
This was the first ever working TV.
It had a 4" Screen.
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Made in France
1929 "Semivisor" was invented by Réné Barthélémy, while working for Compagnie pour la Fabrication des Compteurs et Matériel d'Usines à Gaz of Montrouge -
Made in the USA.
Invented by John Baird
First "mass-produced" scanning disc television
First commercial scanning disc television in the world -
Made in USA.
Invented by Charles Jenkins
This unit provided only the sound and the electrical signal to drive a separate R-400 display unit . The R-400 display unit housed a motor-driven pinhole scanning disk and neon lamp. -
9" console
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12" console
wood (mahogany)
5 channels
TV-radio -
Made in USA.
7" tabletop
wood (mahogany or walnut) -
12" tabletop
wood (mahogany)
TV-radio -
Features:
9" tabletop
bakelite
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First ever remote control made by the Zenith Radio Corporation. It was connected to the television by a wire.
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Features:
17" tabletop
wood (walnut) -
Frst wireless remote control and was developed by Eugene Polley. It worked by shining a beam of light onto a photoelectric cell, but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other sources.
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Features:
21" B&W console
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n Oct. 6, 1966: Name changed to Philco-Ford Corporation.
n March 31, 1975: Name changed to Aeronutronic Ford Corporation.
n Dec. 1, 1976: Name changed to Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation (FACC).
n Jan. 5, 1988: Name changed to Ford Aerospace Corporation
Danish style mahogany wood cabinet, 21" telvesion.
Only few were sold. n Oct. 24, 1990: Sold to Loral Space Systems, Inc. -
24" Screen Size
Black and White
Set owner is Mr. Henry Cabone, who says it is still operating just fine -
In the 1969-1970 timeframe, there was a designer shop in London England called "Zarach" which offered a unique spherical transparent television set with a 14" Sony color Trinitron set mounted inside. The actual production and sales numbers are not known, but were probably less than a hundred units.
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One of the last 'vacuum tube' sets. It was in this time period that the American television set industry migrated to a transistorized TV chassis.
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Very futuristic looking! Another revolutionary design was this transistorized television set by Panasonic, Model TR-005, manufactured in the early-to-mid 1970s. Some collectors have nicknamed this the "Flying Saucer" or "Space Helmet" TV.
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built in U.S.A
19" television screen -
Made in U.S,A
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These heavy glass-screen TVs have been in decline since 2000. Sales of high-end CRTs ceased in 2007 and the smaller, cheaper DVD combo units didn't last much longer.
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If you had a large screen TV before 2000, chances are it was rear projection and took up most of your living room. They have been around since the 70s, but their bulk size can't compete.
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Capable of HD and 1080p, these TVs were noticeably slimmer than your dads rear projection, but still couldn't compete with LCD due to their size and lack of wall mounting.
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Impressive technology allow for a slimmer depth and competitive price, but the writing was on the wall for the rear projection. Sony
exited in 2007 as its 70" LCoS weighted 200lbs. -
First introduced commercially by Fujitsu in 1997, these slim TVs came in larges sizes and even larger price tags. Despite their many benifits over LCDs, Plasma couldn't compete with the dropping prices os LCD TVs.
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First made mainstream in computer monitors, LCD became the world's best selling TV in 2007 thanks to rapid price drops and screen sizes increases. The early version used cold cathode flourescent lamps.(CCFLs)
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replacing the flourescent lamps with LED light mean thinner panels, less power comsumption and brighter dispay. Most TVs sold today are LED backlit LCD.
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By using organic compounds that emit light, these displays can function without backlight, which offers deeper blacks and more contrast than other LCDs.
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This 3D requires no glasses and is not blurry within the right viewing angle. TVs with this technoloy are still being developed but the Nintendo 3DS is a working example.
