Turkus OT 1491 television receiver

The item presented here is the Turkus television receiver. It is a mains-powered, twelve-channel superheterodyne with a black-and-white CRT and diversified audio reception methods. The design of the Turkus OT-1491 model was based on components used in the Belweder TV set, also designed by the Warszawskie Zakłady Telewizyjne (WZT). The housings of both models exhibit visual similarity, but the Turkus differs in not having a front flap for controls. It is equipped with a colour filter, providing the impression of a colour image when placed in front of the screen. The illusion of watching colour television was only achieved for landscapes displayed on the screen, because the upper part of the filter was dominated by the blue colour imitating the sky, and the bottom part was intended to resemble grass. Manufacturer: Warszawskie Zakłady Telewizyjne, Warsaw, 1960 Inv. No. MIM567/VI-74 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)