The Shadow Mask Color Picture Tube: How it Began: An Eyewitness Account of its Early History

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 86, No. 4, pp. 214–221
Abstract: It was toward the end of September in 1949 at RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, that selected members of the Technical Staff were asked to attend a special meeting. No reason was given and I could not help but wonder what it was all about. One of the main topics of interest at the Laboratories was RCA's ongoing objective to devise a system for broadcasting television pictures in color without making obsolete the million or more black-and-white receivers then in use. Therefore, I suspected it might have something to do with this subject. My suspicion was well founded. However, before describing what happened, it will be helpful to provide some background to put the meeting and the events that were to follow in perspective.
Publication Date: 1977-04-01
DOI: 10.5594/J14837
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J14837
Author(s): Harold B. LawRCA Corporation, David Sarnoff Research Center, Princeton, NJ 08540
Copyright: © 1977 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. Color Television Issue , Proc. IRE, vol. 39 , Oct. 1951 . EXTERNAL
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3. Morrell A. M. , Color Television Picture Tubes. New York : Academic Press , 1974 . EXTERNAL
4. Herold E. W. , ÒHistory and development of the color picture tube,Ó Proc. Soc. for Inform. Display, vol. 15/4 , pp. 141 – 49 , Fourth Quarter, 1974 . EXTERNAL
5. Herold E. W. , ÒA history of color-television displays,Ó to be published in a special issue of Proc. IEEE in the Bicentennial year. EXTERNAL

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