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Come visit us.</strong></h2> <p align="center"> <iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1516715046900!6m8!1m7!1s1-JldNZN7Y7tJUS3p-prDg!2m2!1d40.03409142230343!2d-83.1615184750283!3f358.03792844482496!4f-7.508374268364733!5f0.7820865974627469" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> </p> <table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr> <td align="left" ><ul class="tabletext"><strong> <li><a href="arland_videos.html">Short videos showing some of what the museum has to offer</a></li> <li><a href="images/your_visit_to_the_museum.jpg">Your Visit to the Early TV Museum</a></li> <span class="hiddenlarge">To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables</span> </strong></ul> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="90%" border="0" align="center" > <tr> <td width="100%" ><p><b>Location:</b> 5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, Ohio (a suburb northwest of Columbus). Here are <a href="museum_maps.html">maps</a> showing how to get to the museum.</p> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><p><b>Hours: </b>Saturdays from 10 to 6, Sundays from noon to 5. We are not presently open by appointment at other times. </p> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"><p><b>Admission Charge: </b>Adults will be charged $10; seniors (65 and over) and active duty military personnel will be charged $8, and children (under 12) will be charged $5. Museum members and their families are free. Group rate of $6 per person for groups of 20 or more.</p> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="middle"><b>Contact Us: </b>(614) 771-0510. <a href="mailto:info@earlytelevision.org"> info@earlytelevision.org</a>. Mailing address 5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, Ohio 43026.</td> </tr> </table> <p align="justify">The Early Television Museum is located at the beginning of the Heritage Rail Trail bike and hiking path that connects to another park a few miles away. Eventually the trail will be extended to a total length of about 30 miles.</p> <p align="justify">Over 150 TV sets are on display in a 6000 square foot area. Displays include mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 30s; early electronic British sets from 1936-39; early electronic American sets from 1939-41; postwar sets from1945-58; and early color sets from 1953-57. Many of these sets are working. </p> <p align="justify">The Dave Johnson collection of early television picture tubes is also on display, along with early TV studio equipment. </p> <p align="center"><strong>Audio Tour</strong></p> <p align="center"><img src="images/audio_tour-2.jpg" width="600" height="1018" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center"><strong>Each area in the museum has a <a href="museum_audio_tours.html">self-guided audio tour</a></strong></p> <h5>See TV Sets in Operation</h5> <p align="center">As you enter rooms in the museum, some of our TV sets will come on.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/museum_screen_displays.jpg" width="700" height="464" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center"><a href="museum_screen_displays.html"><strong>Monitors run short videos</strong></a><strong> of the screens of mechanical, prewar, and early color sets</strong></p> <table width="663" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr> <td width="663" align="left" ><ul class="tabletext"><strong> <li><a href="museum_articles.html">Articles and Videos Featuring the Museum</a></li> <li><a href="panoramic_images.html">Panoramic views of the museum's displays</a></li> <li><a href="crt_hoist.html">CRT power hoist</a></li> <li><a href="new_roof.html">Museum gets a new roof</a></li> <li><a href="parking_lot.html">The Museum's parking lot resurfacing</a></li> <li><a href="museum_video_playback.html">The Museum's video playback system</a></li> <li><a href="conventions.html">Early Television Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="collectors.html">Early Television collectors</a></li> <li><a href="how_much.html">How much is my old TV set worth?</a></li> <span class="hiddenlarge">To make text larger in single column tables. 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To make text larger in single column tables</span> </strong></ul> </td> </tr> </table> <h5>Display Areas</h5> <p align="center"><img src="images/mechanical_display.jpg" width="700" height="467" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center">Mechanical Sets</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/british_prewar_display.jpg" width="700" height="464" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center">British early electronic</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/american_prewar_display.jpg" width="700" height="469" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center">American early electronic</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/american_postwar_display.jpg" width="700" height="467" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center">American postwar</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/color_display.jpg" width="700" height="464" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center">Color sSets</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/broadcast_display.jpg" width="700" height="465" alt="Early Television"/></p> <p align="center">Broadcast Equipment </p> <h5>The Library</h5> <p align="justify">The museum also has a library of books and other documents relating to early television. They are available to researchers by appointment. Here are lists of the items in the library:</p> <table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > <tr> <td align="left" ><ul class="tabletext"><strong> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQxdxwlJwIE8YwxCQBV0XWEUQGfu7SqRMXFUwrBsivEToZxYudD0yqWAChgfL0LBZ_o168izkwZJ2bj/pubhtml">Books</a> </li> <li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ04Xzc_GGRXIxsf7TbqKH6Z2-gpKZlDeHo6R70kXtIPCdEm-3mxvmZxAGYN5QZRGvkBdsuYtoChKNn/pubhtml">Magazines, Pamplets, etc.</a></li> <span class="hiddenlarge">To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables. To make text larger in single column tables</span> </strong></ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> <td width="1%" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"> </td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"><p> </p><span id="siteseal"> <script async type="text/javascript" src="https://seal.godaddy.com/getSeal?sealID=VeYeABh1hQddraUJaqo539RWqNDVw967aznWInYLY8X3lxM2aWedVGKJ9BN8"></script> </span></div> </div>  <br class="clearfloat" /> <div id="footer"> <table width="101%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td > </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="#a1b1f1"> <tr> <td width="25%"><div align="center" >Early Television Museum</div></td> <td><div align="center">5396 Franklin St., Hilliard, OH 43026</div></td> <td><div align="center">(614) 771-0510</div></td> <td><div align="center"><a href="mailto:info@earlytelevision.org">info@earlytelevision.org</a></div></td> </tr> </table>  </div>  </div> </body> <script>'undefined'=== typeof _trfq || (window._trfq = []);'undefined'=== typeof _trfd && (window._trfd=[]),_trfd.push({'tccl.baseHost':'secureserver.net'},{'ap':'cpsh-oh'},{'server':'p3plzcpnl505096'},{'dcenter':'p3'},{'cp_id':'2285050'},{'cp_cl':'8'}) // Monitoring performance to make your website faster. 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