Philo T. Farnsworth demonstrating and working with equipment

File — Box: 2, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1 Farnsworth with early television camera. Duplicate see (P0437n01_11_022)
2 PTF with and his Secretary Mabel Bernstein with T.V. camera in front of 127 East Mermaid Lane lab in Philadelphia, 1934. This camera was used in the Franklin Institute demo and later taken to Baird Television in London.
3 PTF and model with T.V. monitor used in Franklin Institute demo 1st showing to open public 1934 later that year taken to Baird Television Company in London.
4 PTF adjusting rack equipment.
5 PTF waiting to tune in a picture from the Farnsworth broadcast tower.
6 PTF and Carl Wendy Farnsworth in the basement of 734 East State Street. Duplicate see (P0437n01_04_019)
7 Inventor PTF at the Franklin demonstration. Steaphen and Shiddo (tennis champions) standing in front of the first mobile T.V. camera, September 1934.
8 PTF with an early fusor, 1962
9 PTF with an early fusor, 1965 or 1966. Duplicate see (P0437n01_11_017)

Dates

1900-1980

Conditions Governing Access

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