Early Television Museum
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The Early Television Museum has the best collection of early television receivers in the United States. It is located in Hilliard, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.
Over 150 TV sets are on display in a 4200 square foot area. Displays include mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 30s; prewar British sets from 1936-39; prewar American sets from 1939-41; postwar American, British, French and German sets from 1945-60; and early color sets from 1953-57. Many of these sets are working.
The Dave Johnson collection of early television picture tubes is also on display, along with early TV studio equipment.
The museum also has a working 60 line flying spot scanner TV camera. Visitors can see their friends as they would have appeared on mechanical television in 1930.
The museum is a non-profit foundation, operated by the Early Television Foundation.
