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The Philco Predicta is a black and white television chassis style, which was made in several cabinet models with 17” or 21” screens by the American company Philco from 1958 to 1960. The Predicta was marketed as the world’s first swivel-screen television.
Dec 27, 2022 · In 1958, at the dawn of the Space Age, Philco launched the Predicta, a revolutionary TV with elegance and style that fully embraced those breathless times. But it failed miserably. What killed the coolest TV ever?
Apr 11, 2013 · I’m old enough to remember early TVs as big, boxy things, so when the Philco Predicta sets arrived in the 1958 model year, they were the first “modern” TVs. The big box was banished; instead, the Predicta’s picture-tube pod was exposed, swivel-mounted on a separate pedestal base.
Announced the summer of 1958, Predicta was made for 2 model years 1959 ( G series or models) and 1960 (H series or models). Philco pulled out all the stops on the design of these sets, pulled the best designers out of every department, pioneered leading edge technology.
The Philco Predicta is a television made in several cabinet models in a 17” or 21” screen by the American company Philco (Philadelphia Storage Battery Company) from 1958-1960. It was designed by Severin Jonassen and Richard Whipple and the design director was Herbert V. Gosweiler.
Love it or hate it, the Philco Predicta television is unarguably one of the design icons of the 20th Century. Collectors cherish the Predicta for its "space age" look, but restorers grumble about its hard-to-service innards. Philco produced the Predicta from 1958-1960.
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From 1958-1960 Philco made a television style called the Predicta. With its swivel head and space age design it became an instant classic. Unfortunately, just as TV technology allowed for thinner black and white tubes, color television started catching on.
