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Early Television Museum, Hilliard, OH

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Early Television Museum

A Hilliard, Ohio museum devoted to historic television receivers, from mechanical sets to early color models.

5396 Franklin St., Hilliard, OH 43026 · Hilliard, OH

About Early Television Museum

Run by the Early Television Foundation, this museum preserves and displays television technology from the mechanical era of the 1920s through the arrival of color TV in the 1950s. Its collection covers mechanical, early electronic, American postwar, British and European, and early color sets, along with broadcast equipment, picture tubes, antennas, and test gear. The foundation relies on donations and memberships to operate, and it also hosts online meetings, an annual convention, and swap meets.

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  • #mechanical television
  • #early electronics
  • #vintage technology
  • #Hilliard

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