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Originally Posted by Steve McVoy
Combwork, could the set you saw have been outside Edinburgh rather than Glasgow? Michael Bennett-Levy owned this one:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/ge_1946_prototype.html
which he later donated to the National Museum of Scotland, I think.
This set uses a small CRT which projects an image through the color wheel and a lens and mirror to the screen. |
Thank you Steve, you're spot on. "Donated" is maybe questionable but although things went wrong between us over a trivial matter, by and large he was OK and had an unerring knack of digging out obscure information. I had no idea the set could have been that old but it still leaves the question. Was it brought in from the 'States (possibly by a third party) or was it one of John Logie Baird's prototypes? The well finished cabinet indicates that it was a presentation piece that given the backing of the Pilkington Committee, could have gone into production.
Oh Well. Chances are we'll never know...............
I've just checked. It looks like you're right again
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...museum-gallery WTF? How terribly British to co-invent something then ignore it.