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Mechanical television (also called televisor) was a television system that used mechanical or electromechanical devices to capture and display images. However, the images themselves were usually transmitted electronically and via radio waves. The reason for this dual nature of mechanical television lies in the history of technology. Mechanical television mechanics came from nineteenth century... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Mechanical television

    Mechanical television (also called televisor) was a television system that used mechanical or electromechanical devices to capture and display images. However, the images themselves were usually transmitted electronically and via radio waves.
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    List of experimental television stations

    | W9XG | ? | Lafayette, IN | Purdue University | 2.75-2.85 MHz | ? | 1931 | 1939 | 60 | 24 | Mechanical Television | ? | ... Television systems before 1940
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    Early television stations

    | W3XK | None | 1605 kHz & 6420 kHz, later 2.00-2.10 MHz | | Wheaton, Maryland/Washington, DC, USA | July 2, 1928-1932 | Mechanical television 48 lines | None |
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    Philo Farnsworth

    When Farnsworth traveled to England in 1932 while raising money in his legal battles with RCA, he met with John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor who had developed mechanical-scan cameras, and was seeking to develop electronic television receivers, having made the worlds first public demonstration of mechanical Television in London in 1926.
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    List of years in television

    1926 in television—On January 26 Baird gives the first public demonstration of mechanical television to m embers of the Royal Institution.
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    Field-sequential color system

    Mechanical television
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    Television systems before 1940

    Mechanical television
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    Nipkow disk

    This scanning disk was a fundamental component in mechanical television through the 1920s.
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    Experimental television

    As experimental television is also understood as a history of the technological development of the inventions related to the television from its origins to today that somehow haven't succeeded as a standard format like mechanical television.
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    WRNY (defunct)

    Mechanical television

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