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Baird Televisor, 1930 (England)The Plessey model was the most popular version of the mechanical "Televisor" to be available to the British and West European retail buying public. It was engineered and designed by John Logie Baird and manufactured by the Plessey company in England. It was purchased by television enthusiasts to watch the periodic Baird Studios/BBC broadcasts available from 1929 to 1932. The 30 line images did not take up the entire "screen", but were in fact 6cm high and 2cm wide. Instead of black and white, they were black and red due to the colour of the neon gas in the lamp. About 1,000 of these sets were originally produced and priced at just over 18 British pounds each. There were kit receivers without the tin cabinet, available from Baird's for only 7 pounds. Baird was one of the true pioneers of television. He successfully demonstrated the possibilities of the Nipkow system of mechanical television by achieving the first television picture in October, 1925.
The MZTV Museum recreated the original appearance of mechanical television images by using a special 30 line camera that feeds into an original Baird Televisor. The special camera system, and the Televisor itself worked very well thanks to mechanical television expert, Peter Yanczer. The following video shows the Televisor in action, reproducing a human face treated with the original style of make-up that was used for programs in 1930.
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