https://intelligentcollector.com/100-years-of-television-design/
"While there is disagreement over exactly who invented television, the
technology behind it was rapidly coming to fruition a century ago. In January
1926, Scottish electrical engineer John Logie Baird successfully demonstrated
the first moving image transmitted by television, and the following year,
American inventor Philo T. Farnsworth laid the groundwork for TV as we know it
with his broadcast of the first electronic TV image.
Nearly a decade passed before the BBC launched the world’s first regular
television service from Alexandra Palace in London on November 2, 1936, but
even throughout the 1940s, TV was considered a luxury novelty for the wealthy.
This would all change rapidly in the postwar boom era, with more than half of
Americans owning a TV set by 1955. Although many of us now try to camouflage
our modern flat-panel black box sets, these vintage devices were often designed
as decorative household fixtures and are now collectibles in their own right —
and can be a fun party trick when operable. Who wouldn’t want to watch an
episode of
I Love Lucy on an Eisenhower-era set? So don’t touch that dial as
we look back on seven iconic designs from the Golden Age of TV."
Via Esther Schindler.
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