You all have heard or seen pictures of the 1939 RCA Lucite TRK-12, well here's the 1952 Lucite solid-state TV.

This is (was) a battery powered set, with a 5" CRT, 37 transistors, drew 14watts, weighed 27 pounds, and received one channel 15 miles from the transmitter when equipped with a rabbit ear antenna.

Sorry I know nothing else about this set, anybody??

Chuck

they should have started making solid state sets back in the early 50s.

unless they already were, and I wasnt aware of it.

That set is so cool!:cool:
I bet there were a lot of prototype sets like that make before the first Philco Safari, which i believe was released in 1959, or was it earlier?

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I am not sure, but it is either Radio-electronics or Radio and television news. It talked about the set, the fact that it only had one channel, realitively low high voltage, and so on. I think I still that that magazine. I will try to find it, and find out more about the article.

I received a reply from Alex Magoun who is the Executive Director
of the David Sarnoff Library.

He said that the set is on loan to the National Museum of American History and it will be returned at the end of this year.

Chuck

It was about this time, 1954, that TI made an all-transistor demo
set. This is just trusting to memory. It was either '54 or '55 and it
was definitely TI that did it. It had to be all germanium, just like the Safari 4 years later. I think '54 was also the first year of the
Regency TR-1 transistor radio, a short time before the Japanese
stuff appeared here.