TelevisionMachine.com

About This Site

Welcome to TelevisionMachine.com!

This site is dedicated to the history and preservation of both old and new methods of low definition mechanically-scanned television, especially early British mechanical television and the work of John Logie Baird.

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I chose the name "Television Machine" because the term machine evokes thoughts of a device filled with wheels and cogs, levers and pulleys, which are the heart of mechanically scanned television.

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Contents

The Baird System

• Why Only 30 Lines?

• About Me

• How It's Done

• Links

• Mechanical Television at the BBC

• My First Televisor

• 30-line Televisor (with neon)

• Flying Spot Scanner

• Why It Works

• Television and TV

• How to Make a Nipkow Disc