August 1936. Alexandra Palace Television station

Published: 08 May 2006  08:44 AM
Source: The Engineer

On Sunday last we paid a visit to the Alexandra Palace, where a television station has been established to provide an extended trial of the systems devised by Baird Television Ltd, and the Marconi EMI Television Company Ltd…

…While the two companies have each installed the equipment necessary for the vision part of the business, the BBC has provided the sound transmitter common to both systems. It has also carried out the necessary structural alterations to the building, and has erected the mast which carries the two aerials.

1936 Alexandra Palace TV Station

Comments

Television was alive and well when WWII started in America, England, France and Germany. At the start of the war, England interrupted a Disney cartoon, and when the war ended, resumed the cartoon right where it left off, apologising for the interruption!
Scott: 20 Apr 2007

If it had not been for World War II and the Great Depression, I am certain that commercial television would have had it's ascendancy in the 1930's instead of the 1950's.
Bob: 13 Apr 2007

Could one imagine what the state of television would be in if World War Two did not happen? Would the present advances happen sooner?
Joe: 29 Jan 2007

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