Before that we’d have had a CRT colour TV, them maybe our parents grew up with a monochrome model. Before those though came the first TVs of all, which were mechanical devices that relied on a ...

[aussie_bloke]’s tin can TV is a mechanical television, a TV where the scanning lines of a CRT is replaced with a spinning disk with very small holes.(if you have a better analogy in this day of ...

That all began to change with the first mechanical televisions, visual entertainment devices that transmitted recorded video on a large, mechanical wheel encased within the machine. Less than 100 ...

How John Logie Baird's mechanical television showed the way, but ultimately to a dead end. Humanity’s deep desire for connection means the idea of seeing images at a distance has a long history.

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) applied for a patent for a mechanical television in 1923. He ran successful experiments in transmitting images in 1926, and in 1930 he worked with the British ...

The gist of it: there are two systems of television—all electronic (RCA), which has yet to go beyond black & white, and will not have color before 1951; part-mechanical (CBS), which has already ...