Receiver Dressed in Glass Shows Secrets of Television (Aug, 1939)
Receiver Dressed in Glass Shows Secrets of Television
Some of the secrets of television reception are disclosed to the public by a glass-encased receiver exhibited by RCA at the New York World’s Fair. Although it is not in operation, those who see the set gain an impression of the genius out of which grew such an involved and intricate piece of magic in this newer field of radio.
It should be noted that by that time rectangular direct view CRTs were already state of the art in other countries.
If it is not in operation, why did they have to enclose it in glass?
This one-off unit now lives in Toronto:
http://www.mztv.com/new…
@ Mike – To quote the grey market TV salesman on the Simpsons. “to prevent fallapart.”
The Great Grand Daddy of the transparent iMac. Now if it only came in Bondi Blue
Christian Berger-The RCA was using a 12 inch picture tube not like the 5 inch Marconi EMI set. Even the (for the time) big screen TVs like the Murphy A42, or the Telefunken FE-VI used a mirror view because of the length of the early CRTs.
That is one gorgeous yacht on the cover.
actually, it was Lucite (acrylic)
I’m fairly (!) sure they had working plastic ones at the NYWF of 1939.
It was to prove that it wasn’t a film projected image.