The Sarnoff Collection, documenting and exploring major innovations in communication and electronics in the 20th century, is open: https://xitter.gq/t.co/uhP5s0P1Y2
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#BTS of the Sarnoff Collection! We currently have 10 SelectaVision Video Disc Players prepping to be shown!
#tcnj #selectavision #videodisc #sarnoffcollection #crt #museumcollection
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"The Promise of Solar Energy" by J. Allen
Come by our talk on solar energy and see what the future has really got to offer.
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Are you reading this on a laptop, tablet, or cell phone?
If so, spare a moment to thank George Briggs, the experimental physicist, #ManhattanProject veteran, and #RCA research scientist who helped build one of the first flat-panel TVs.
#histSTM #electronics #physics
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Because you won't hear about it from @QEPrize, a reminder that the first #BlueLED was built by #RCA researcher Herbert Maruska in 1972. In 2014, I worked w/Dr. Maruska & @TCNJSarnoff's Jonathan Allen to confirm it still worked.
sciencehistory.org/distillat…
#electronics #histSTM
The #QEPrize2021 winning innovation is... LED lighting! From aviation to off-grid lighting, light emitting diodes have transformed our world. qeprize.org/winners/led-ligh…
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#RCA Victor Color Television: Number 1 with a bullet.
(Just ask the King!)
More info via @NewsHour: pbs.org/newshour/nation/why-…
cc: @TCNJSarnoff
Historic television set actually owned by Elvis (with apologies to Robert Goulet, whose TV appearance Elvis was not enjoying):
@JoeNBC
@Morning_Joe
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For this year's #Octojam I implemented Joe Weisbecker's game Think-a-Dot (1965) aka. FLIP (1974) in Joe Weisbecker's programming language #CHIP8 (1977). Play it here: tobiasvl.itch.io/flip-8 (Surprised he never did it himself!) @TCNJSarnoff #MuseumFromHome
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This looks fantastic - should also be combined with the artifacts @TCNJSarnoff available here: davidsarnoff.tcnj.edu/
Take a tour of @RHA_NYPL's exhibition "Toscanini: Preserving a Legacy in Sound" without leaving home - thanks to @LincolnCenter's new website, which highlights all of its constituents’ programs and activities!
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1931 - NBC began putting a TV transmitter on top of the Empire State Building. The first experimental TV broadcast from the building was on December 22, 1931.
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TODAY is the DAY! Join us for the ArtsComm DIGITAL Launch Event at 12:30 PM TODAY on Facebook Live - facebook.com/artscomm/posts/… and YouTube Live - youtube.com/watch?v=zg6xrNIE…
#TCNJ
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It’s National Manufacturing Day! Check out this 1939 photo from @HagleyLibrary collection that shows women in television manufacturing wiring the structural frame of @RCAbrand home television receivers in Camden, NJ 📺 bit.ly/2AAkpbp
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#OnThisDay in 1951, #RCA renamed its Princeton lab after David Sarnoff. In a speech, Sarnoff asked his staff to create a "light amplifier," inspiring flat-panel display research that eventually led to the 1st #LCDs.
(Read the full story in my book, The #TVsOfTomorrow!)
#histSTM
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Electrical engineer and inventor Jan Rajchman, seen here holding a 256-bit magnetic core memory array, is our #ScientistOfTheDay!
lindahall.org/jan-rajchman/
#histSTM #RCA
#electronics #computing
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"In the next half century people will see as well as hear around the world. Pocket-size radio instruments will enable individuals to communicate with anyone anywhere. Newspapers-magazines-mail-messages will be sent through the air”—David Sarnoff, 1955
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TCNJ is fully remote this fall. Let’s embrace it and make it the best semester ever offered. I’m ready to transform the educational experience in every way possible. Let’s make it more engaging, relevant, inclusive, and purposeful. DM me if you’d like to help make this happen.
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13 July 1930:
David Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
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#Lockdown Moments Part 9 It’s a dog’s life! @BBCBargainHunt Eric Knowles learns about the life of one of the most famous pets in the world with @EMIArchiveTrust very own curator.
Here bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07m1p8…
@explorearchives @CollectionTrust @BBC_HaveYourSay
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As a young curator, I was often frustrated creating exhibits without collections to share lesser-known stories. We must collect today for tomorrow. I commend the work of our collaborating curatorial teams at @SmithsonianACM @NMAAHC and @amhistorymuseum. nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/sta…
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In the 1960s there was another kind of 'computer game'.
Board games based on computation, early electronic computers, & the human computers that predated programmers.
Here's some 'computer games' by Joseph Weisbecker, from the ace @TCNJSarnoff archives.
sarnoff.omeka.net/exhibits/s…
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#OnThisDay in 1967, Richard Williams received a patent for "Electro-Optical Elements Utilizing an Organic Nematic Compound." It was RCA's first liquid crystal display patent & the only one issued before the company went public w/the #LCD in 1968.
#histSTM #electronics
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