Britain’s Oldest TV is Discovered
Britain’s oldest working television the 1936 Marconiphone, is thought to have been made in the months that Britain’s first “high-definition” television service began.
The TV set belongs to Jeffrey Borinsky a collector of antique television and radio sets.
He bought the 12-inch screen 10 years ago and is still working on restoring it to its original state.
Mr Borinsky said: “The cabinet was beautifully restored by the previous owner, but my aim is to gradually restore its electronics to its true 1936 magnificence.”
He has now hooked it up to a Freeview box so that it can show digital channels, but Mr Borinsky has had to install a standards converter so that a modern television signal can be seen.
The grandson of television pioneer John Logie Baird says this set would have been of huge interest when it was first bought at a cost of 60 guineas – £11,000 today.
He says: “Television was a very exciting thing; it was something that the whole neighbourhood would come over to watch. People would crowd into the home of the owner.”
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