Others demonstrating and working with equipment

File — Box: 2, Folder: 11

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

1 Christensen with an early camera. Duplicate see (P0437n01_11_026)
2 Lindy Player (brother-in-law of PTF) at transmitter control room in the Farnsworth Broadcast Studio, Philadelphia, 1936. see duplicates in P0437n01_11_0010, 16)
3 BYU Lab worker making elements for a Farnsworth Image Dissector (camera tube) using a spot welder, made for Arch Madsen, President of Bonneville International, 1987.
4 Man Posing with MK I fusor.
5 George Bain next to MK I fusor.
6 Rear Admiral Frederick R. Furth ITT V.P. with MK I fusor. Duplicate (see P0437n01_17_026 bottom right image).
7a RLH. George Bain with mark III fusion tube above pit to operate, September 1964
7b Joseph Spallone making a measurement in Farnsworth lab, Fort Wayne, 1947.
8 Employees of Farnsworth working on a government project, 1950's.
9 Caption 1: Top: Carl J. Christensen with camera. Center: PTF. Below: Cliff Gardner with receiver and Robert Humphrey. (from the Farnsworth journal for 1927). This crew produced the first all electronic television picture on 09/07/27. Caption 2: collage put together by Philo III and Pem
10 Unidentified man working on rear of TV.
11 Soundproof studio. Probably not electric T.V.
12 Ray Bart working at the Litton Glass Lathe producing a T.V. tube, 1938.
13 Unidentified man examining TV apparatus.
14 Woman displaying T.V.
15 George Everson showing the Farnsworth camera to visitors, photocopy only
16 Cliff Gardner (brother of Pem) showing an image amplifier tube (later called an iatron tube).
17 Cliff Gardner – Mrs. Farnsworth brother - holding image amplifier camera tube (Major patent issue of Farnsworth / RCA 1940 Interference).
18 Technician with scanning apparatus.
19 Farnsworth Dealers Convention, 1948. First showing of the Farnsworth T.V. Receiver.
20 Don McKay, Program Announcer. Chestnut Hill, Wyndmoor, PA, 1938.

Dates

1900-1980

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