Agency for Cultural Affairs
[National Museum of Nature and Science] Announcement of Shizuoka University and National Museum of Nature and Science Joint Exhibition “The Beginning and Development of Television Technology”
National University Corporation Shizuoka University (President: Kazuyuki Hizume) and the National Museum of Nature and Science (Director: Kenichi Shinoda) will be open from December 13, 2022 (Reiwa 4) (Tuesday) to February 5, 2023 (Reiwa 5) ( The Shizuoka
University-National Museum of Nature and Science joint exhibition “The Beginning and Development of Television Technology” will be held until the following date.
[Detailed URL: https://www.kahaku.go.jp/event/2022/12television/] [Image 1
Shizuoka University/National Museum of Nature and Science Joint Exhibition “The Beginning and Development of Television Technology” Poster
“Television” is a broadcasting facility that uses information communication technology to send video and audio to remote locations and reproduce them on receivers. Almost a century has passed. After the war, when it was put into practical use, it came to be widely called “television”, and now ultra-high-definition images such as 4K and 8K have been realized, and its research and development has made remarkable progress.
In this exhibition, we will introduce television, which can be said to be the crystallization of technology, from its principles to the history of research and development, and examples of advanced research, along with related materials.
Overview of the event
Shizuoka University/National Museum of Nature and Science Joint Exhibition “The Beginning and Development of Television Technology” [Venue] National Museum of Nature and Science (Ueno Park, Tokyo) Global Hall 2nd Floor Permanent Exhibition Room
[Date] December 13, 2022 (Reiwa 4) (Tuesday) to February 5, 2023 (Reiwa 5) (Sunday)
[Opening hours] 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. *Admission until 30 minutes before closing time
[Closed] Mondays, December 28 (Wednesday) – January 1
(Sunday/holiday), January 10 (Tuesday)
However, it will be open on January 2nd (Monday, holiday) and January 9th (Monday, holiday)
*Exhibition dates, etc. are subject to change.
[Admission fee] General/university students: 630 yen (groups 510 yen) (tax included), free for high school students and younger and 65 and older
*This exhibition can only be viewed with the permanent exhibition admission fee. Groups of 20 or more.
[Request] We will check your temperature and physical condition before entering the building, and if you have a fever, you will not be allowed to enter.
For details, please see our website.
https://www.kahaku.go.jp/news/2020/reservation/reservation.html [Organizer] National University Corporation Shizuoka University, Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Nature and Science
[Cooperation] Ministry of the Environment, Kenjiro Takayanagi Foundation [Exhibition overview] See the exhibition flyer
https://www.kahaku.go.jp/event/2022/12television/images/Television2022.pdf “Father of Japanese Television” Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899-1990) Born in Wada Village, Hamana District, Shizuoka Prefecture (now Hamamatsu City). In 1921, graduated from Tokyo Technical High School (currently Tokyo Institute of Technology). In 1924, he was assigned to Hamamatsu Higher Technical School (the predecessor of Shizuoka University’s Faculty of Engineering) and began researching television. In 1926, for the first time in the world, he succeeded in
electronically displaying the letter “I” written on a mica plate on a cathode-ray tube. In 1927, he filed a patent application for a vacuum tube camera tube, and thereafter contributed to the realization and development of electronic television broadcasting.
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Photo courtesy of Shizuoka University
Exhibition introduction
[The letter “I” used for the first image taken in Japan]
From 1925 to 1926, a mica plate with the letter “I” used for imaging experiments.
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Collection: Kenjiro Takayanagi Foundation
[“Father of Japanese TV” Kenjiro Takayanagi’s handwritten notebook] An experimental notebook used by Takayanagi around 1945. It can be seen that the technology is divided into individual elements and written methodically.
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Collection: Kenjiro Takayanagi Foundation, Shizuoka University Takayanagi Memorial Museum of Future Technology
[Photoelectric tube of Takayanagi type television equipment] A vacuum tube that converts the brightness of light into an electrical signal. It was used in the Takayanagi-style television equipment developed in the early 1930s. It has been on permanent display at the National Museum of Nature and Science since 1936.
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Collection: National Museum of Nature and Science
[Iconoscope Television Camera]
A television camera that uses a special vacuum tube called an iconoscope, which converts light into electrical signals. Around 1937, manufactured by the Technical Research Institute of Japan Broadcasting Corporation.
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Collection: National Museum of Nature and Science
[CRT receiver]
A prototype image receiver using a small electrostatic cathode-ray tube. [Image 7
Collection: National Museum of Nature and Science
[Portable TV]
The all-transistor TV is said to be the world’s first direct-view TV. 1960, made by Sony.
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Collection: National Museum of Nature and Science
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