Hi,

Gerolf Poetschke, who is maintaining a website for German pre-war tv sets, has made a trip to Russia. He visited the Popov Museum of communication in St. Petersburg. Several Russian prewar sets and cameras are on display:

http://fernsehen.bplaced.net/popov.html

Additional, he made some photos of early Russian colour TV, and with them the first Russian color tv set from 1954, the Raduga:

http://fernsehen.bplaced.net/RUS_Popov_colour_01.html

Kind regards,
Eckhard

Wow! thanks for posting! Looking at the color set, I don't have a clue as to how it works... Are color filters mounted on a drum? Is that some kind of odd color CRT? anybody got a picture or sketch of the internal mechanism of this set?

jr

I really want to get or make a color wheel one of these days.

The ETF has information on the Russian field sequential set

http://www.earlytelevision.org/raguda.html

Thanks for posting the links to those wonderful pictures Eckhard.

Darryl

Thanks, Eckhard. I didn't know these sets existed.

Thank you, Eckhard. The photo of the TK-1's tuning dial is better than any I have seen of its RR-359 cousins! Now I have to see one close up, turn the knob, imagine what those who were there 70+ years ago were experiencing! Sadly, there are none on display in the western U.S. that I know of...

Good day Gentlemen,

on the topic of mechanical TV and mechanical color TV see French engineer Roger Dupouy's wonderful site. Over the past 10 years, Roger has entirely built from scratch 30 line cameras and receivers, ditto in 60 lines, and now color. Most of the site is available in english:

http://la-radiovision.fr/

60 line mirror-screw TV & color demo:
http://la-radiovision.fr/projetmirror-suite.htm

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

... on the topic of mechanical TV and mechanical color TV see French engineer Roger Dupouy's wonderful site. ...

Thanks, Jerome!

Roger is selling one of his fine replicas, a mechanical baird televisor, see item number 260626595422.

Kind regards,
Eckhard

Hi Eckhard,

Thanks! yes i knew he was selling some of his items, but at high prices - justified because of their uniqueness and hundreds of hours spent building them.

A labor of Love and 10 years of his life, got to respect that.

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France