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It seems that in 1936, Philco was demo-ing television using a projection system built in a modified 116PX cabinet.
I found this photo in an article of Radio News, Nov. 1936, page 266, on americanradiohistory.com.
Are any of these known to have survived?
(Edit: Corrected cabinet from 680 to 116PX.)
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Old news.
https://philcoradio.com/library/index.ph...elevision/ (scroll to the third photo)
As to whether any survived, it is very doubtful but who knows?
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Thanks, Ron!
I thought it was a 680 cabinet. Searching for 116PX instead, I also found this interesting article about the, "First televised sports interview."
http://sabr.org/research/first-televised...-interview
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It's also not a projection set, those operate differently with a small CRT, lenses, etc. This is more similar in operation and layout to an RCA TRK 12 in which you viewed the screen indirectly from a mirror, I don't know whether they reversed the polarity of the yoke coils or deflection plates though.
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Arran