DescriptionScience and Invention Television 1928.jpg
English: A woman watching an early homemade experimental mechanical television receiver in 1928, from Hugo Gernsback's magazine Science and Invention. During the 1920s some radio stations began broadcasting experimental television programs, which could be viewed by mechanical "televisor" receivers like this one. The video signal from the receiver (left) is applied to a neon lamp in the viewer (right). In front of the lamp a metal disk with holes rotates, creating the scan lines of the image. This created a dim monochrome orange image 1.5 inches (4 cm) square with 48 scan lines at 7.5 frames per second, visible within the viewing cone, which the woman is watching. These mechanical-scan television technologies never achieved images of sufficiently high quality to catch on with the public, and were superseded by electronic scan television broadcasts in the 1930s.
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The page numbers were on an annual basis, not per issue. This issue had pages 577 to 672. The magazine is 8.5 by 11.5 inches.
Date
November 1928. This page scanned August 2008.
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Science and Invention magazine, November 1928, Volume 16, Number 7, cover, published by Experimenter Publishing Co., New York, NY. This page was scanned by User:Swtpc6800 on an Epson Perfection 1240U at 300 dpi with half-tone de-screening enabled and stored as TIFF. The image was cropped and touched up in Adobe Photo Elements 5.0. This copy saved as a 150 dpi JPG.
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A slight adjustment of the rheostats and the picture come in clearly. This photo shows the complete television receiver connected to an ordinary radio set. The picture is seen in the cone. == Summary == {{Information | Description= A slight adjustment
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A slight adjustment of the rheostats and the picture come in clearly. This photo shows the complete television receiver connected to an ordinary radio set. The picture is seen in the cone.
Science and Invention, November 1928. Volume 16 Number 7. Photo from page 618.
Copyright holder
The copyright on the magazine was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
Published October 10, 1928 by Experimenter Publishing. New York, NY.