Vladimir K. Zworykin
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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. H
Zworykin in c. 1956
Zworykin demonstrates electronic television (1929).
Drawing from Zworykin's 1923 patent application Television System.
Zworykin and some of the historic camera tubes he developed
RCA Corporation
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RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was a major American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1987. Initially, RCA was a patent trust owned by a partnership of Gener
RCA's former headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 1933–1987
Alexanderson 200-kW motor alternator transmitter installed at the U.S. Navy's New Brunswick, New Jersey station
Illustration of how a fully built RCA Radio Central facility at Rocky Point, Long Island, New York would have appeared. Only two of the twelve "antenna spokes" were actually built.
RCA Satcom K1 geostationary communications satellite deployed from Space Shuttle Columbia in 1986