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Oldest UK television discovered

But the Marconiphone 702 still works as a new-fashioned television.

It has been hooked up to a Freeview box so that it can show digital channels, although Mr Borinsky has had to settle a standards converter so that a modern television signal can be seen.

Mr Borinsky only keeps the set turned on up to two hours at a rhythm, and he uses it to view films from the 1930s and 1940s.

He says he enjoys watching the considerate of pictures that might have been seen by the original owners.

The National Media Museum in Bradford has a like set, but does not use it to show television pictures for fear of damaging it.

Iain Logie Baird, the curator of tube at the museum, said it is a thrill to see the Marconiphone working.

"It's very enticing to see the image the way people would have seen it in 1936, before television became ubiquitous as it is today," he said.

Source: BBC News

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