32 Line Mechanical Television I

[MrFrancisH]

Just the odd points of interest. Baird was able to do outside broadcasts using a continuous loop film. It was exposed as a normal film would and then passed through a scanning camera. He also had a colour system. There were two back lamps in the receiver, one neon for reds and orange, the other a mercury vapour for blues. He also recorded black and white pictures. This was disputed, but it was the only way he could demonstrate on tour. The disk and record running on a common drive shaft system

[traffety]

interesting

[spottydog4472]

ahaha..telly - that'll never catch on.........

[hebneh]

I'm not sure what I'm looking at here. The TV image is off on the right side; did the moving vertical black bars occur originally? Or is that an artifact of this particular video recording? I too have only read about this, and seen photos of the Felix the Cat figurine who was the initial test subject.

[esmith512]

Thanks for posting these videos. I've only seen 32-line Baird sets as old photographs in books. Seeing it in video has a wow factor of watching an image tear and roll eventually to become recognizable through the scanning disk. I can only imagine what people felt and thought when they saw this for the first time in their lives in the 1920s! It was amazing then! In 2009 it's still amazing.

[asiekierka]

I think he means 12.5 and 24 :P

[britecho]

Interesting stuff! I recently visited Helensburgh in Scotland, which was the birthplace of J.L. Baird. I was astounded to see that there was no museum dedicated to the man and his pioneering work. The most I saw of the Baird connection was a small bust monument along the waterfront. Very disappointing. Come on Helensburgh council. Television was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Get your act together!

[spottydog4472]

Theres a baird museum in London - the curator is Baird's son.....

[britecho]

Thanks. Any idea where in London?

[tedhuntington]

amazing!

[madamerotten]

Wow! Thanks for this!

[laurdy]

I'm currently building one of these and was wondering: how you are getting it to automatically synchronise with the source video?

[TeslaMaster]

Search with Google for "32-line Hybrid Mechanical Television Receiver". All the informations you need, you will find there in the documentation.

[coolbluelights]

Woow!! incredible!

[chibicelchan]

Oh my god, this is amazing.

[deloreanman60]

Very cool, It makes me want to build one!

[frugola92]

very interesting, congratulations , another experimental video please!

[Nipkow]

very cool! congratulations!

[TeslaMaster]

See TeslaMaster's "Mechanical Television II" (Video Response) for a short fragment of moving images. Stay tuned. More stuff coming soon.

[theprophet20]

As a teenager in the sixties, I dreamed of replicating Baird's Nipkow disc tv transmissions. I never did.

I have lived long enough to see modern teenagers take nano devices with tv and all sorts of other technical wizardry in their stride...