{"id":33322,"date":"2012-09-07T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33322"},"modified":"2023-06-07T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:21:59","slug":"one-that-never-made-it-rca-once-disclosed-that-they-had-spent-over-200000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33322","title":{"rendered":"One That Never Made It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One That Never Made It<\/p>\n<p>RCA once disclosed that they had spent over $200,000,000 developing color television. I don&#8217;t doubt it&#8230;it was expensive work to do and this Tri Color Vidicon tube is proof.\u00a0 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 &#8217;55, the concept was abandoned due to the cost involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/426846027352952\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/One-That-Never-Made-It-RCA-once-disclosed-that-they-had-spent-over-200000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/426846037352951\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One That Never Made It RCA once disclosed that they had spent over $200,000,000 developing color television. I don&#8217;t doubt it&#8230;it was expensive work to do and this Tri Color Vidicon tube is proof.\u00a0 Here in this photo from April of 1953, Dr. Paul Weimer of RCA Labs poses with the new tube idea and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[788,754,806],"class_list":["post-33322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-rca","tag-vidicon","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79369,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33322\/revisions\/79369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}