[NJARC] A new television museum (Dave Sica)

[Magoun, Alexander]

As the author of the compact authoritative history of TV, I was more than a little mystified, and suspicious, immediately.  Who are these people who have never attended an early TV conference?  Why the references to television and televisors well before either term was coined?  And what's with the baroque stylings for European televisors that have no source of televised content?  Are they film projectors or TV receivers?  The conflations of vocabulary, the absurd dating and cabinet styles, the mixed locations (Philco in Pittsburgh), the doctored ads dated 20+ years before their publication, and the imaginary funders (it's the Alfred T. Sloan Foundation, not Arthur T., and no way Pem Farnsworth has $10K to support the alleged 1920s commercial receivers, especially since she died 18 months ago), all reveal it for, yes, a labor-of-love and steam-punk (www.steampunkworkshop.com) sham.

So Al, beware of accepting amazing claims and the "big lie" on face value:)

Cheers,

Alex

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http://www.teleseum.org/

--Dave Sica

Alexander B. Magoun Ph.D.
Curator and Executive Director
David Sarnoff Library
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Princeton NJ 08540-6449

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