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Philco "116PX Television" from 1936
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12-28-2017, 05:22 PM
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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12-28-2017, 05:36 PM
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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12-28-2017, 06:21 PM
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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01-09-2018, 04:28 AM
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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