Belweder OT 1471 television set

The Belweder OT 1471 is the first television set to be manufactured on the basis of Polish documentation and using Polish parts. The first model had a 14-inch cathode-ray tube, and in 1958 the Belweder II OT 1782 variant was made with a 17-inch CRT. It was a modern design, allowing the selection of one of 12 channels and with a wired remote control. It had 12 positions, eight for television channels, and the remaining four were intended for handling UHF sub-ranges. This allowed the Belweder to double as a radio receiver and receive the FM band between 87-100 MHz. The Belweder provided the framework on which subsequent TV set models manufactured in Poland were based, including the Turkus, Szmaragd and Neptun. Manufacturer: Warszawskie Zakłady Telewizyjne, Warsaw, 1959 Inv. No.: MIM550/VI-72 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)