Web Directory

» BBC Research & Development - Milestones
   History of the department that has been involved in the emergence of technical standards since before the BBC first began broadcasting television in the 1930s
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/milestones/

» Chuck Pharis - Television
   Vintage television receiving and broadcast equipment.
   http://www.pharis-video.com/p21.htm

» Documentation: German "Einheitsempfänger E1"
   The one and only tv set of the German E1 (Telefunken, 1939) which is still in operating mode. The E1 was the world's first tv set with a flat screen and a rectangular picture tube.
   http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold/archiv/TV/telefunken/e1.htm

» Early Television Foundation
   Early television hardware, restoration tips, database of prewar sets and historical TV information.
   http://www.earlytelevision.org/

» Early Television: Photo Collection
   Personal photo album of Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, one of the people credited with the invention of television.
   http://framemaster.tripod.com/

» Ed Reitan's Color Television History
   Traces the history of early color television. Includes a number of pictures.
   http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/

» Frank's Handheld-TVs
   Provides an overview of the history of pocket televisions.
   http://www.taschenfernseher.de/

» History of public broadcasting
   Timeline of developments in public TV and radio in the United States.
   http://www.current.org/history/

» Library of American Broadcasting
   University of Maryland 'Broadcasting Pioneers' museum.
   http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/

» MZTV Museum of Television
   Toronto-based museum collecting television sets and related memorabilia.
   http://www.mztv.com/

» NCSU Computer Graphics Lab 1970-78
   Early graphics combining computers and television technology.
   http://www.virhistory.com/ncsu/ncsu_lab.htm

» Television History
   The history of television invention from the black and white TV to color TV and digital TV. Includes information on some of the inventors along the way.
   http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Television.htm

» Television History - The First 75 Years
   Features technical information, program guides, timelines, magazine advertisements, inventor biographies and photos of early TV sets.
   http://tvhistory.tv

» The Philo T. Farnsworth Archives
   Site devoted to the man many believe invented, among other things, television.
   http://philotfarnsworth.com/

» Tubepedia
   Pictorials of early iconoscopes, kinescopes, orthicons, vidicons, saticons and other CRTs.
   http://www.aade.com/tubepedia/1collection/tubepedia.htm

» tvdawn.com
   Information on the recovery of the earliest recordings of television, describing the restoration of these recordings and their history.
   http://www.tvdawn.com/