An Experimental Television System: Part I-Introduction

During the first part of 1933 a complete experimental television system was placed in operation in Camden, New Jersey. Practical tests were made under conditions as nearly as possible in keeping with probable television broadcast service. Program material was obtained from studio pick-up and outdoor pick-up. The outdoor pick-up was from a point a mile from the studio and transmitter. In addition, a studio program originating in the Empire State Building in New York was relayed to Camden by radio and broadcast in Camden. The transmitter used an iconoscope as the pick-up element and the receiver a kinescope as the reproducing element. This paper is an introduction to a group of three papers which describe the transmitter terminal equipment and the transmitter, the New York-to-Camden radio relay circuit, and the receiver apparatus.