Satellite
Mercury7

[1]The Mercury7 Satellite was my first more serious venture in television design. In some ways it was largely influenced by Philco's Predicta series in which the cathode ray tube was situated apart from the chassis. I was intrigued by the sense of magic this held; a glass vessel filled with flickering rays of light somehow forming a legible moving image. As the cathode ray tube is the centrepiece for virtually every television I felt that it was appropriate to display it as such.

[3]A flexible 1.25" hose is employed as a jacket for the wires running from the tube to the main chassis board. This model is available in black and white as well as colour, in 12" and 14" tubes respectively. The red sphere on the colour model provides housing for the remote control sensor.



[2]While I was in the process of separating the user's interfaces from what shouldn't concern anyone but the technicians. I mounted the speaker within a stamped metal globe which hovers about the cathode ray tube at the end of a flexible "gooseneck" shaft. The black and white model which is illustrated herein shows the other "gooseneck" supporting the on-off volume control knob. The base is an aluminum dome 18" in diameter. These parts are manufactured by a metal spinning company located on the mainland (Vancouver, BC). Within this dome are the afore mentioned "technicians concerns" a perforated bottom provides adequate cooling to the chassis. Thermal formed ABS plastic is used to protect the back areas of the picture tube.

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