One That Never Made It
RCA once disclosed that they had spent over $200,000,000 developing color television. I don’t doubt it…it was expensive work to do and this Tri Color Vidicon tube is proof. Here in this photo from April of 1953, Dr. Paul Weimer of RCA Labs poses with the new tube idea and the color camera that never was. By ’55, the concept was abandoned due to the cost involved.
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