Marconiphone monochrome television receiver, type 4661, c 1970s

Marconiphone monochrome television receiver, type 4661, c 1970s. Dual standard 405/625 line model. By the 1970s there were over 10 million black and white television sets in Britain, but colour television had already taken over in popularity with 14 million colour sets in circulation. The continual drop in prices meant that more households than ever before could afford to own more than one television set. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), after whom this television is named, was an Italian physicist and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. Photographie. ©SSPL/National Media Museum