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English: A woman watching an early homemade experimental mechanical television receiver in 1928, from Hugo Gernsback's magazine Science and Invention. During the 1920s some radio stations began broadcasting experimental television programs, which could be viewed by mechanical "televisor" receivers like this one. The video signal from the receiver (left) is applied to a neon lamp in the viewer (right). In front of the lamp a metal disk with holes rotates, creating the scan lines of the image. This created a dim monochrome orange image 1.5 inches (4 cm) square with 48 scan lines at 7.5 frames per second, visible within the viewing cone, which the woman is watching. These mechanical-scan television technologies never achieved images of sufficiently high quality to catch on with the public, and were superseded by electronic scan television broadcasts in the 1930s.