What better to watch the Moon landing on than your brand-new 1969 television set? RCA, Magnavox and Zenith all debuted new TV lines that year, each with their own unique selling point. Televisions themselves were [more…]
Telephone Television The “Space Phone” built into some Zenith System 3 TVs from the 1970s to the 1990s unfortunately didn’t let you call space, but it did let grandma call her grandkids without having to [more…]
One of the original televisions offered for sale at the start of UK television service in 1936, the Marconi model 702 had such a long cathode-ray tube that it needed to be stood on end, [more…]
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