[Boatanchors] 1942 RCA film about tubes and TV

[brianpepperdine brianpepperdine]

I think I heard in the voice-over that a lot of these fellows were Dr. 
So and So. They had credentials in research it seems. Suits and ties 
make it look like they are above the fray...a lot of techs and lab 
workers are shown.
I wonder how many of them were associated academics with assigned 
university positions, versus working directly for RCA Labs (or the other 
labs) instead of academia/commercial cross-over.
As was the case at my alma mater, there were a number of the professors 
who had outside labs/development arms there were researching and then 
marketing the product of the university funded (or co-funded) academic 
work. This is no surprise now.
Matter of course... you might have heard of the BlackBerry (university 
drop-out engineering student at U of Waterloo).
My friend never worked in electrical engineering per se after 
graduating...software/hardware junctions and then only worked for 
development arm of computer systems area that grew into a  major North 
American player  ( I don't really understand what they did).. .then he 
moved his skills in tech marketing to BlackBerry (bad move it turned 
out) ... and then drones.. and then now at FLIR..where I kid him that he 
basically hunts down bad hombres at night from all areas.. .criminal and 
political... HI.

Brian


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    From: 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
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    Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] 1942 RCA film about tubes and TV

              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.

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