![]() ![]() Add to that the fact that General David Sarnoff, president, board chairman, and spiritual leader was a technical visionary who could smell innovation and you will find the climate for invention. ![]() “The company was in 1950 the dominant maker of vacuum tubes in the world. ![]() Jack Saddler who worked in sales and marketing roles at RCA from 1952-62 commented in a retrospective from 1990: To be successful he must not only manufacture, but he must encourage research to create new methods, new devices, new services.” The radio manufacturer is the logical producer of radio-heating equipment, radar, loran, shoran, teleran, and hundreds of allied radio-electronic devices. “The industry does not pick up where it left off before the war. He told the Radio Manufacturers Association in 1947: Post war the laboratory research programme needed radical redirection in order support the innovation demanded by RCA Chairman, David Sarnoff. Engineers worked on radar antennas, phosphors for radar screens, acoustic fuses for anti-submarine munitions, navigation, infrared cameras and microwave communications as well as television, an important consumer product for RCA. Early on its programmes were dominated by war-time military contracts which did not necessarily relate to RCA manufacturing. The chosen site was close to its manufacturing locations at Harrison and Camden and was opened in 1942 with a staff of 125 engineers and scientists. In 1941 RCA had decided to bring its R&D on to a single 260 acre site it purchased near Princeton University. The alliance was disestablished in 1932 following successful Federal antitrust actions against RCA and General Electric. General Electric and Westinghouse made RCA their exclusive marketing channel for receivers and tubes in return for cross licenses to their patents. Post war American Marconi was bought by General Electric and transferred to RCA. During World War I General Electric’s Alexanderson wireless transmitters and American Marconi’s shore stations were regarded as strategic assets having proved their value when Germany cut the trans-Atlantic telegraph cables and wireless was the only alternative. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed in 1919 by General Electric, AT & T and United Fruit with the encouragement of the US Federal Government which wanted to maintain US leadership in long distance communications. ![]()
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