LRS members had dinner at the Sands Hotel in Burntisland before going on to the Museum of Communication to view the 2026 exhibition “100 Years of Television – When Screens were small but the magic felt huge” and the lecture by Prof. Tom Stevenson.
An MoC guide describes an exhibit item to LRS visitors.
An old TV repair shop.
Applications of television technology.
Introduction to the history of TV – 1905: First images in a Cathode-RayTube.
Applications of TV technology.
John Logie Baird’s dummy Stookie Bill and his disc scanner.
An image scanning disc.
An early Ampex Video Recorder using 2-inch magnetic tape.
Examples of CRT TV receivers.
Illustrations of various CRT TV receivers.
Early CRT TV receiver with tube mounted vertically (to accomodate long neck)
and consequent need for a 45-degree mirror for convenient viewing.