Mechanical Television Project for Spark Museum in Bellingham
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:54 am
Folks:
I have just completed the design and construction of a living exhibit for mechanical television at the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, Washington.
We still have a bit of causmetic and interpretive work to do before we have the exhibit set up in the galleries. We hope to have it done by late fall.
However, you can see what I have done, as well as an explanation on how I created the signals on my youtube video that I have created. It is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqCBjtfpvaU&t=15s
The Spark Museum owns a Baird Televisor as well as an experimental kit mechanical television. Both are from period (1920's). They are not recent experiments.
My role is to create the signals appropriate for the neon lamp and to have the signal synchronize with the spinning of the disk so that the museum visitor does not have to fiddle with the motor speed to synchronize the picture.
If you have any further questions, you can email me at allyn (at) well.com
Enjoy!
Mark Allyn
Bellingham, Washington
I have just completed the design and construction of a living exhibit for mechanical television at the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, Washington.
We still have a bit of causmetic and interpretive work to do before we have the exhibit set up in the galleries. We hope to have it done by late fall.
However, you can see what I have done, as well as an explanation on how I created the signals on my youtube video that I have created. It is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqCBjtfpvaU&t=15s
The Spark Museum owns a Baird Televisor as well as an experimental kit mechanical television. Both are from period (1920's). They are not recent experiments.
My role is to create the signals appropriate for the neon lamp and to have the signal synchronize with the spinning of the disk so that the museum visitor does not have to fiddle with the motor speed to synchronize the picture.
If you have any further questions, you can email me at allyn (at) well.com
Enjoy!
Mark Allyn
Bellingham, Washington