[NJARC] Library Marks Sarnoff’sCentenary with Lectures, Exhibits

[Robert Flory]

Hi Alex,
How long will the exhibits be up?
Have the other speakers published papers on their topics?  

Rob Flory
robandpj at earthlink.net
www.home.earthlink.net/~navyradio  WWII Navy Radio
www.home.earthlink.net/~robandpj    Les Flory Television and Electronics


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> From: amagoun <amagoun at davidsarnoff.org>
> To: NJARC <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 5/15/2006 10:40:44 AM
> Subject: [NJARC] Library Marks Sarnoff’sCentenary with Lectures, 	Exhibits
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> Library Marks Sarnoff’s Centenary with Lectures, Exhibits
>
> One hundred years ago, a fifteen-year-old immigrant started work as an
> office boy for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, and
> the world changed because of it.
>
> This June, the David Sarnoff Library will honor its namesake with three
> illustrated lectures and two exhibits on Sarnoff’s career and New Jersey
>
> innovations that changed the world.  The lectures take place in Sarnoff
> Corporation’s Auditorium on successive Tuesday evenings on the 6th,
> 13th, and 20th of June, at 7:30 pm.  These programs are made possible by
>
> grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner
> of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Sarnoff Corporation.
>
> On June 6, Dr. Paul Israel, director of the Edison Papers at Rutgers
> University, will speak on “Looking Forward from Edison to RCA:
> Industrial Innovation in Central New Jersey.”  He will discuss the
> geographic, economic, and human aspects that made the Garden State such
> an attractive location for the world’s greatest inventor and his
> research and development activities in the late 19th and early 20th
> centuries.
>
> On June 13th, Dr. Sheldon Hochheiser, former historian and chief
> archivist for AT&T, will speak on “Looking Down from Murray Hill: Six
> Innovations that Changed the World.”  He will explain why AT&T moved
> Bell Laboratories across the Hudson River from Manhattan, and discuss
> some of the innovations that emerged from them, from the transistor to
> satellite communications to digital networks.
>
> On June 20th, Dr. Alexander Magoun, executive director of the David
> Sarnoff Library, will speak on “David Sarnoff, RCA, and the Arc of the
> American Century.”  He will trace how Sarnoff’s career parallels the
> rise and relative decline of his adopted country, from his arrival from
> Russia in 1900 to the demise of the company he defined, RCA, in 1986.
>
> “David Sarnoff is an icon of the American Dream,” says Dr. Magoun.
> “He’s Horatio Alger come to life, only we know that he accomplished far
> more than any of Alger’s children.  The lectures and exhibits offer some
>
> context for why and how he and RCA’s staff accomplished so much.”
>
> David Sarnoff rose through the ranks of Marconi and its successor, the
> Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and championed the innovation of
> electronic technologies to fill the human need for communications, from
> broadcast radio to color television to technologies enabling the
> Internet.  In the summer of 1941, he helped break ground for what became
>
> the David Sarnoff Research Center at the junction of Routes 1 and 571 in
>
> Princeton.  There, RCA’s scientists and engineers realized Sarnoff’s
> vision for more compact and convenient communications and information
> technologies by inventing and innovating color television,
> liquid-crystal displays, video cameras, low-power and high-frequency
> transistors, computers and memory technologies, and electron
> microscopy.  Dedicated to improving opportunities through the innovation
>
> of electronic communications, Sarnoff and the inventors of RCA made
> possible a world connected and informed by electronics.
>
> The exhibits—David Sarnoff and the Innovative Spirit and Six Innovations
>
> that Changed the World—offer visitors opportunities to understand and
> appreciate the electronic technologies that make modern life possible,
> and the people who brought them to life.
>
> The Library will be open from 6:30 until 9:30 so that guests may tour
> the exhibits before and after the lectures.  ADA access is available to
> the lectures.  Refreshments will be served.  For more information call
> (609) 734-2636 or email questions at davidsarnoff.org.
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>
> Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D.
> Executive Director
> David Sarnoff Library
> 201 Washington Road, CN 5300
> Princeton, NJ 08543-5300
>
> 609-734-2636
> amagoun at davidsarnoff.org
> (f) 609-734-2339
> www.davidsarnoff.org
> www.davidsarnoff.blogspot.com
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