Jeffrey Borinsky of United Kingdom is the proud owner of the nation’s oldest television set, that was manufactured in the year 1936 and is known as Marconiphone. It is also estimated to be Britain’s very first line of ‘high definition’ televisions.

Jeffrey Borinsky is a resident of the United Kingdom and is known to be avid collector of antique television and radio sets. Jeffery acquired the Marconiphone from another collector and has been trying to restore the antique piece of history back to its original condition. The Marconiphone is sports a 12 inch television screen he acquired it then years ago.

The screen of the television set is embedded inside a wooden cabinet and the image is projected onto a mirror, through the cathode ray tube, that has been installed in a classic vertical formation inside the cabinet.

At the time of the manufacturing of the Marconiphone, there was only one channel operating in the United Kingdom, that was BBC, therefore, UK’s very first television set has no channel changing buttons. However, it does have volume control and vertical control buttons.

According to Jeffrey Borinsky:

“The cabinet was beautifully restored by the previous owner, but my aim is to gradually restore its electronics to its true 1936 magnificence,”

Here is a video of this historical finding:

Via BBC.