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EARLY PHILCO TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT

	The British Government Television Committee visited Philco in Philadelphia in early 1935. This picture was taken on the roof of company headquarters. Front row, left to right: unidentified; Lord Selsdon, Chairman, British Government Committee; James M. Skinner, Philco President; Noel Ashbridge, Chief Engineer, BBC. Back row, left to right: T. Varley Roberts, Secretary, British Government Committee; Walter E. Holland, Philco Vice-President, Engineering; William Grimditch, Philco Chief Engineer; Lloyd Good, Philco Production Manager.
Circa 1936: This test of televising outdoors on a rainy day was conducted at Philco’s Plant 2 at Tioga and C Streets, Philadelphia. Note umbrellas being held over the camera at left and over the woman at right.
	Mr. Sam Greenburg of Empire State Distributors, Philco distributor in Albany, NY, tries out a Philco Television Converter. Model 40-216 radio at right. June 1939 Photo courtesy Tom Genova
The comedy team of John “Ole” Olsen and Harold “Chic” Johnson ham it up with two unidentified women inside W3XE’s studio at Philco Headquarters, circa 1940.
	A Philco television receiver built prior to 1942.
Philco issued photographs of actual scenes that had been transmitted over its TV station, W3XE, which became commercial station WPTZ in 1941. This photograph shows a scene from a WPTZ broadcast, 1942.

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