[Boatanchors] 1942 RCA film about tubes and TV

[Richard Knoppow]

     This redirects to a film on You Tube. I went there directly 
and found a promotional film on RCA Research Laboratories. The 
film is interesting because it puts faces on many of the famous 
scientists and technicians that wrote important papers for RCA. I 
think there was always a sort of contest among RCA, General 
Electric and Bell Labs (jointly run by AT&T and Western 
Electric). All of them used their research labs as promotion for 
the companies. There were other industrial labs such as Kodak's 
famous one. I think all were inspired by Edison's lab, certainly 
General Electric was its successor. While all did important 
industrial research none did much fundamental reseach, although 
GE did some. Mostly fundamental research was confined to 
university run laboratories.
    As most members here know RCA was mostly an outgrowth of 
General Electric and inherited a lot of technology from them. For 
example the RCA system of motion picture sound recording was 
mostly developed at GE (as GE Photophone) and much early electron 
tube research. All of the labs were sources of prestige for the 
companies who ran them but I think this was especially so for 
David Sarnoff and the RCA labs. It is interesting history both 
for the discovery of new technology and for the insight into the 
psychology of some of the early leaders of these great industries.

On 4/22/2022 8:11 AM, Bill Meara via Boatanchors wrote:
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