Television Receiver no. 36 Kit no. 26

Shortwave & Television Labs. Inc. / Corp. (Baird); Boston, MA

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  • Year
  • 1931/1932
  • Category
  • Television Receiver (TV) or Monitor
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 164561

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Tubes
  • 7
  • Valves / Tubes
  • Main principle
  • Superheterodyne (common)
  • Wave bands
  • Short Wave (SW only)
  • Power type and voltage
  • Line (AC, UC or DC not known) / 110 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • - For headphones or amp.
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Television Receiver no. 36 Kit no. 26 - Shortwave & Television Labs.
  • Shape
  • Chassis only or for «building in»
  • Notes

  • This 1932-1933 mechanical television (Model 26) was designed by the noted American inventor Hollis Semple Baird, and manufactured by the Shortwave and Television Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts. It has a 1-inch screen and one tube. Hollis Baird's design was considered an improvement in mechanical television quality. (Hollis Baird was no relation to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, who first invented mechanical television).

    Lafayette 10th Anniversary catalog 1932 for season 1931/32, page 40 offers a Baird Television Kit and a Television Set (besides the Baird models 135C and 135D. The kit includes acabinet, lens, television lamp, synchronizing amplifier and framing device. Television receiver no. 36 is completely wired and in cabinet, whereas no. 26 is the unwirde kit. New horizontal scanning is used.

    There is a separate "Baird Universal Short Wave Kit no. 25" for 15 to 200 m with the power tube 245 and a completely wired version in cabinet as "Television Short Wave Receiver".

     

  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • Lafayette Radio Catalog (Lafayette 10th Anniversary catalog 1932 for season 1931/32, page 40.)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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