Baird 'Tin box' Televisor
- Made:
- 1930-1940 in United Kingdom
- inventor:
- John Logie Baird
- maker:
- Plessey Co. Limited
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor
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'Tin box' televisor
A 'tin box' televisor, made in about 1930
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Baird 'Disc model' televisor, manufactured by John Logie Baird and Plessey Company Limited in c. 1930. Serial No. 191.
The original Baird ‘Televisors’ (television sets) were made with mahogany cabinets and were very expensive. This later ‘tin box’ model, priced at just over £18s, was designed for Baird by Percy Packman, an engineer at Plessey.
The first experimental television broadcasts from the Derby would have been very low resolution – just 30 lines of television, received by the very few who owned a ‘televisor’.
Only about a thousand of these sets were sold, as buying DIY kits based on the same 30-line system proved the cheaper and more popular option. It would have been purchased to watch the periodic Baird Studios/BBC broadcasts between 1929 and 1935.
Details
- Category:
- Television
- Object Number:
- 1958-132
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), brass (copper, zinc alloy), metal (unknown), glass and mechanical components
- Measurements:
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overall (estimate): 550 mm x 690 mm x 310 mm, 11 kg
- type:
- televisor
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
