Britains oldest TV!

My great aunt had a 1939 DuMont which looked like this except the screen was round. She said her husband bought it for one of the first televised Joe Lewis fights. I remember this TV still having a clear picture well into the 1980's.

A very interesting lady, and a neighbor of Thomas Edison in W. Orange NJ she always claimed her street was the first to have electric power and street lights.

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Cool picture, I remember watching a 9" B&W set, (looking very roughly similar to the pic in post #5) we didn't have one, this was at our neighbours house, my sister and I were allowed in to watch one TV programme a week with their children. :)
 
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My great aunt had a 1939 DuMont which looked like this except the screen was round. She said her husband bought it for one of the first televised Joe Lewis fights. I remember this TV still having a clear picture well into the 1980's.

A very interesting lady, and a neighbor of Thomas Edison in W. Orange NJ she always claimed her street was the first to have electric power and street lights.

aa1cbd0481ea79e22a270996eb46eef5.jpg

DuMont had one of the first commercially produced US TV sets in 1938, a 14 inch roundy fishbowl screen electrostat set based on the British Cossor set.
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http://www.earlytelevision.org/dumont_180.html
http://www.earlytelevision.org/dumont_180_rest.html
http://www.earlytelevision.org/cossor_137.html

Britain and Germany got scheduled TV broadcasting in 1936, the US 1939.
 
Australia didn't get TV until 1956. Keep in mind that Melbourne hosted the Olympic Games that year. Perhaps if it wasn't for the Olympics we might not have gained TV for another 5 or more years.

Think of how much beneficial results would have been if it had been postponed for that length of time(wink).
 
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