-
Baired Television
Watching the Derby on a Baird television, 1931. We suspect that the velvet-jacketed flapper on the right may have a betting slip in her fistPhotograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images -
Relatively compact early television
display at the Radio Exhibition in 1938. The BBC had begun regular TV transmissions from Alexandra Palace two years earlierPhotograph: Central Press/Getty Images -
Baird experiments with colour TV apparatus
Baird experiments with colour TV apparatus at his home in Crescent Wood Road, Sydenham, south London. BBC TV had ceased transmission for the second world war, returning in 1946Photograph: Science & Society Picture Librar/Getty Images -
Your complete home entertainment system
a Dynatron combined radio and television - it looks like it might also do as a sideboard - on show at Olympia in 1949Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty -
A family watching television at home.
The sideboard look still holds, although it's a sleeker, Festival of Britain-style sideboardPhotograph: Keystone/Getty Images -
Bush television
- still black-and-white, but able to handle higher resolution 625-line UHF transmissions, as well as the 405-line ones standard in Britain since 1936. BBC2 launched in 1964 as a UHF-only service, starting to add colour three years later; 405-line transmissions finally ceased in 1985Photograph: Science & Society
