tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:30:53 +0000War of the WorldsVolunteersRCADavid SarnoffMuseumArchivesField TripsFarnsworthThereminYouTubeElectro-MusicHistoryKip RosserTelevisionEducationFundraisingGrover's Mill Coffee CompanyToursZworykinDocentsFarnsworth InventionMcCaffrey'sRadioAaron SorkinHank AzariaOh No So HoResearchBlogrollEmmyIEEEMarconiRCA VictorThe College of New JerseyVictor Talking MachineNews and events from the David Sarnoff Library in Princeton NJ, dedicated to the study and promotion of innovation: www.davidsarnoff.orghttp://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)Blogger76125en-usnoNews and events from the David Sarnoff Library in Princeton NJ, dedicated to the study and promotion of innovation: www.davidsarnoff.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-4324849684152990741Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:31:00 +00002011-07-22T16:31:52.225-04:00David SarnoffMuseumRCAThe College of New JerseyPresumably readers are aware the David Sarnoff Library closed its doors at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton at the end of 2009.  Naturally we were all unhappy with that decision, but thanks to the board of directors, volunteers, and project staff, we managed to find new and productive homes for the archival and artifact collections.  The Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware, is http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2011/07/three-years-later.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-4625967983484218524Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:56:00 +00002008-09-29T23:27:05.361-04:00If the Martians returned to central New Jersey for an anniversary, what would you do?“A lot of water has gone over the Grover’s Mill dam since their last visit,” says Dr. Alex Magoun, executive director of the David Sarnoff Library. “It’s time to let by-gones be by-gones, and welcome them back with a festival.”Inspired by suggestions from West Windsor volunteer Sharon Chapman; Gwen McNamara, thenhttp://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/09/mars-visits-martians-for-education.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-3244581587286270147Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:55:00 +00002008-09-04T15:37:17.727-04:00War of the WorldsYouTubeTo kick off the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the historic War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which will be held at the David Sarnoff Library on October 25th, we've put together a little YouTube teaser advertisement. Noted thereminist Kip Rosser composed and performed the original music, WellsWelles Etude, for Seven Theremins; logo design winner Monica Vagnozzi's artwork is featured athttp://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/war-of-worlds-youtube-video.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-4653866726043700650Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:43:00 +00002008-08-26T20:25:51.557-04:00ArchivesRCA VictorResearchVictor Talking MachineHow often do you expect to get a question about pre-1940 Korean phonograph records? If you answer the Inbox at the David Sarnoff Library, you could on it happening once in a lifetime because of Victor Talking Machine Company and RCA Victor's international operations. But this month, to our surprise, two scholars made inquiries, with an Argentinian graduate student inserting her request about the http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/crossroads-of-history-rcavictor-style.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-5769867982291404535Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:25:00 +00002008-08-20T13:47:17.656-04:00ArchivesHistoryVolunteersIf you had 3,000 photonegatives sitting in acidifying cellulose sleeves, you'd want to rehouse them, wouldn't you? That's one of the challenges facing the Library, and a concerted effort this summer by archival assistants old and new has resolved it. The photonegatives in this case contain 4" by 5" images of the RCA Laboratories staff taken between in-house by Norm Newell, Tom Cooke, and Marty http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/archival-production-line.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-6812228629344063718Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:07:00 +00002008-08-14T10:54:07.150-04:00EducationField TripsVolunteersWhile we await the response of several hundred school principals to our field trip invitation, two different organizations visited last week. Under the initiative of New Jersey state curator of natural history David Paris, the museum's Kaleidoscope summer science academy learned about some of the state's traditions in high-tech research and innovation, sound waves and their application, and data http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/08/summer-field-trips.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-8964330963278597003Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:56:00 +00002008-07-22T13:08:54.371-04:00ArchivesIEEERCAResearchEvery year the IEEE History Center hosts a young scholar for a summer internship, during which she or he can work on a project at the center or draw on near-by scholarly resources. This summer, Alejandro Casasempere Garcia from the Technical University of Madrid is working on his master's thesis, "The Role of the White House in the Establishment of a Government Radio Monopoly in the U.S.: The http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/07/ieee-researcher-visits-library.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-431884030802636572Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:03:00 +00002008-07-15T19:12:55.875-04:00David SarnoffEducationFarnsworth InventionField TripsHistoryMuseumRadioRCATelevisionToursWar of the WorldsYow! The Princeton Packet follows Town Topics' feature article last winter with a double feature today. First, an article by Adam Grybowski on Library executive director Alex Magoun, David Sarnoff, and RCA's inventions as exhibited in the museum, with multiple photos by Mark Czajkowski; and then an article on the Library's Martians for Education campaign and logo. Can the Today Show and Jon http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/07/power-of-press.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-4384211520221213412Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:12:00 +00002008-06-27T10:40:00.969-04:00Aaron SorkinDavid SarnoffFarnsworthFarnsworth InventionHank AzariaRCATelevisionZworykinHear executive director Alex Magoun speak on the history of television, interactive TV in historical perspective, David Sarnoff, and The Farnsworth Invention on Tracy Swedlow's TV of Tomorrow internet radio show! Tracy is the founder and editor of Interactive TV Today, which has covered the business of interactive television for ten years. She met Alex at the Early TV Foundation convention in http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/06/now-playing-on-tv-of-tomorrow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-7413083139697939802Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:18:00 +00002008-06-27T10:57:33.302-04:00EducationField TripsFundraisingGrover's Mill Coffee CompanyRadioWar of the WorldsMonica Vagnozzi!But first, some background. After five years and the first field trips, it was time for a change. “We’ve been staging the War of the Worlds broadcast with a live cast and antique radios since 2003,” says David Sarnoff Library executive director Alex Magoun. “A lot has happened at the Library since then. Now that we’ve begun hosting field trips to our new exhibits and renewed our http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-winner-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-2832086701714384889Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:46:00 +00002008-06-19T19:35:13.240-04:00EducationGrover's Mill Coffee CompanyWar of the WorldsZworykinYes, our five fearless and discerning judges--Jinny Baeckler, Sharon Chapman, Jerry Fields, Alex Magoun, and Dick Snedeker--found favor with three of the eighteen entries for our Martians for Education logo to accompany our 70th-anniversary War of the Worlds festivities this October. One logo ruled them all, though the other two will also receive prizes--from Sotto 128 Ristorante in Princeton, http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/06/verdict-is-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-1499864631836721016Mon, 12 May 2008 18:29:00 +00002008-05-12T15:31:11.075-04:00David SarnoffEmmyHistoryMuseumTelevisionOne of the highlights in our museum tours is explaining how the Emmy award honoring the best in television programming, technique, and technology got its name from the Image Orthicon video camera tube invented at the new RCA Laboratories in Princeton during World War II. (See project head Albert Rose with his brainchild on the right.) We have the first "Emmy," or "immy" tube, as NBC's engineers http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/05/sarnoffs-emmy-returns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-3099544723048843021Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:37:00 +00002008-04-10T01:47:59.741-04:00David SarnoffField TripsWar of the WorldsMartians who can send a fleet of spaceships to Earth and nearly destroy the world with heat beams and giant tripod vehicles surely had excellent training science and engineering. We don't have to match the Martians, but what David Sarnoff once said--"Our children today must be inspired to become the scientists of tomorrow"--remains a reality when we face once unimaginable economic, environmental,http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/04/martians-for-education-logo-design.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-6025214053852983525Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:23:00 +00002008-03-06T17:36:27.430-05:00Aaron SorkinDavid SarnoffFarnsworthFarnsworth InventionHank AzariaHistoryRCATelevisionZworykinAaron Sorkin's Broadway play The Farnsworth Invention closed last weekend after a three-month run at the The Music Box Theatre. According to Variety, its box office suffered from the strike last fall that began on opening night, and competition from a number of other non-musical productions. Thanks to the gift of Library friend George Cody, I had the opportunity to see it before it closed, and http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/03/farewell-to-farnsworth-invention.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-6402330700161722778Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:35:00 +00002008-03-04T11:32:21.198-05:00Electro-MusicGrover's Mill Coffee CompanyKip RosserMcCaffrey'sThereminWhat’s the buzz about? After a wired holiday celebration last December, the Electro-Music Chamber Orchestra returns to Sarnoff Corporation's Auditorium on Saturday, March 15th with its mountains of synthesizers, keyboards, sequencers, gizmos, gadgets, and electro-gear. Doors open at 7:00 PM for this ear- and eye-expanding event, with refreshments provided by Grovers Mill Coffee and McCaffrey's http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/03/princeton-is-about-to-buzz-electro.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-7729292079412036389Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:54:00 +00002008-02-25T10:42:33.477-05:00David SarnoffFarnsworthHistoryRCATelevisionWe've heard from several readers how much they enjoyed the history, explanations, and style of executive director Alex Magoun's new book for Greenwood on the history of television from the discovery of a photoelectric effect in selenium in 1873 to the Consumer Electronics Show in 2007. But now Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries ("the premier source for reviews of academic books, http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/readers-choice-television-life-story-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-1140135779583913781Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:46:00 +00002008-02-23T12:24:18.573-05:00FarnsworthHistoryKip RosserMarconiRadioTelevisionThereminWar of the WorldsZworykinIf you live on the other side of New York City from Princeton and have no plans for Saturday, March 1, set your course for the Tilles Center Atrium at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University, the site of the second annual Long Island Radio Day! As the gateway to New York City harbor, Long Island has a tradition in wireless communications extending to the first Marconi station in the http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/magoun-to-speak-at-long-island-radio.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-4092022412811515245Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:09:00 +00002008-02-18T15:38:30.606-05:00ArchivesVolunteersUntil someone proves us differently, Vivian Zhang is the world's youngest archival assistant. A hardworking fourth-grade student in Montgomery, New Jersey, she helps at the Library on holidays, thanks to her father, who works at Sarnoff Corporation. Since last spring, when Vivian helped dry out hundreds of color slides, she has also assisted with resleeving and relabeling the negative collection http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/worlds-youngest-archival-assistant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-6965677431704231180Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:21:00 +00002008-02-18T15:02:54.752-05:00EducationWe're very excited to see the world's largest engineering organization, the IEEE (formerly known as the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) add video to its website. IEEE.tv provides free streamed videos to those interested in what engineers do in some crucial areas for our future: environmentally sensitive design, transport, energy, and manufacturing, and what they've done in thehttp://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/ieee-adds-tv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-8706054405641335580Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:08:00 +00002008-02-14T20:51:10.092-05:00RCAWe are pleased to announce that Library friend Richard "Dick" Williams is this year's recipient of the Society for Information Display's Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize for an outstanding technical achievement in, or contribution to, display technology. After a year of researching materials that would provide an electro-optic effect appropriate for a flat-panel display, Dick discovered and http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/williams-receives-braun-prize.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-3192965066793438889Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:33:00 +00002008-02-16T11:24:59.497-05:00RCAIt is with sadness that we mark the passing on Monday of Harry Kihn, who served RCA and its laboratories and technologies with distinction and honor from the beginnings of television in 1939 to the beginnings of computer chips in 1977. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Harry received 27 patents on everything from FM altimeters during World War II to "Kihn's Kolor Killer" for monochrome reception of http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/3-deaths-in-family.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-7611755262038090381Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:13:00 +00002008-02-08T18:17:31.274-05:00FarnsworthWe have learned that The Farnsworth Invention will be closing on March 2. Thus, our scheduled trip to see the show on March 29th has been canceled. Anyone who has already ordered tickets for this trip will receive a refund from the West Windsor-Plainsboro Community Education department.http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/farnsworth-invention-trip-canceled.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-1400310677705163572Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:22:00 +00002008-01-24T07:29:33.887-05:00FarnsworthMany of you have expressed interest in attending The Farnsworth Invention on Broadway, which has received much better reviews from the audience than many of the critics, who sometimes seem offended that a Hollywood luminary has returned to the Great White Way. Nonetheless, popular theatrical productions on the process and ambition of high-technology innovation, no matter how technically askew, http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/01/trip-to-see-farnsworth-invention.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-7819514482187923465Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:03:00 +00002008-01-21T22:23:06.184-05:00David SarnoffDocentsField TripsMuseumVolunteersWe've just concluded an amazing week: four days of field trips for 200 third graders, and another jam-packed open house on Saturday. If the engagement of the children from Dutch Neck Elementary School is any indication, the American prospect is brighter than we think. They took in Alex Magoun's illustrated talk on David Sarnoff's immigrant experience, they collected data in a wide-ranging http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/01/looking-back-while-looking-ahead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13362373.post-7729476105085912066Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:57:00 +00002008-01-16T18:11:58.088-05:00Electro-MusicFarnsworthRCAThereminOur most recent email newsletter touting this Saturday's open house brought us a response from RCA Labs color TV pioneer, digital TV pioneer, and author Dick Webb, a fine IEEE Fellow who sent us a link that "just appeared last week and does the best job so far to demonstrate the virtual organ idea." Visit http://virtualorgan.com/, download the Miditzer Style 216 version 0.881 (!), and see and http://davidsarnoff.blogspot.com/2008/01/speaking-of-electronic-music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Sarnoff)0