N.Z.’s First Television Set Built By Schoolboy
WHANGAREI. Yesterday (PA).— New Zealand’s first television set has been made by a sixth-former at the Whangarei Boys’ High School, Lloyd L. Dyer. Last week-end Lloyd succeeded in transmitting through wires the image of a design scratched on a photographic negative. An earlier attempt. made in August to televise the imagine of the sun was also successful, although the apparatus was not completed. The entire equipment, costing £5O, was made by Lloyd at school with the help of two other pupils. A five-inch cathode ray tube intended for a radar set forms the main part of the receiver. Lloyd designed his own circuits and built his own assembly after studying overseas magazines and book?.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 14 December 1949, Page 5
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