The RCA Orthicon Tube
Harley Ambrose Iams and Albert Rose of RCA developed the tube in 1938. Although it was a simpler design than the Iconoscope, building this tube was much more difficult. This 4 Inch RCA Orthicon tube was 18 inches long.
Sometimes, it’s good to put things is perspective with a big picture overview of how television developed. Here is a look at the early milestones of the new media…baby steps along the way. By the way, W2XBS became WNBT or what we now know as WNBC. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee Apr. 30, 1939. President […]
MAJOR NEW YORK STUDIOS HISTORY UPDATE…. WOR – ABC – NBC – VIDEO TAPE CENTER/ 67th Street Studios In this RCA Broadcast News magazine from the fall of 1950, starting on page 46, this 27 page article gives us a complete and total tour of the new WOR Television Center on 67th Street, AND, some […]
NBC’s announcement that the RCA Building’s largest studio would be making the switch to a new medium. This August 11, 1950 memo also mentions that Studios 3A and 3B will have finished conversion by Labor Day of 1950. [pdf-embedder url=”https://staging.eyesofageneration.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/NBC-Studio-8H-Converted-to-TV-August-1948-ARbk.pdf”]
CBS Television City: ‘Kids Say The Darnedest Things’ This segment of the Art Linkletter House Party is the most famous of all. Linkletter interviewed schoolchildren between the ages of five and ten. During the segment’s 27-year run, Linkletter interviewed an estimated 23,000 children. The popularity of the segment led to a TV series with the […]
The image orthicon tube was the basis for NATAS naming it’s performance award the Emmy. (Say “image orthicon” fast.)