These mechanical TV systems were quickly superseded in the 1930s by all-electronic systems, so of the very few sets manufactured only a fraction have survived the intervening decades. The spinning ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After Baird's early experiments, the BBC reluctantly picked up his problematic mechanical television and aimed to make practical television a reality...with an ambitious deadline. By the late ...

He can be seen at work in this fragment of film from the mid-1920s: John Logie Baird experimenting with his mechanical television system in 1929. If Baird’s machinery looks rather improvised and ...