RCA has a historical connection to the Montauk Experiment referenced in the preceding video post. Click link below to read more and view images included in the article.
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Tech Wars: RCA and the Television Industry
by Gary Hoover |
American Business History Center
Feb 5, 2021

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From the telegraph to the modern age, high technology has seen continuous innovation, followed by the rise of numerous competitors, then consolidation into fewer companies, and finally decline. Here is one of our favorite stories.

The advent of television rivals the automobile, airplane, telephone, personal computer, and Internet in its impact on the lives of people. Few technologies touch as many people on a daily basis around the globe as much as TV and its descendants cable, satellite, and streaming.

By the 1920s, when radio first rose to prominence, inventors and researchers were already working on radio’s natural child, television. Major companies including General Electric and Westinghouse began to bring together vacuum tube and the other technologies required to make television a reality, but it was the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) that led the way. At the 1939-40 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, Queens, New York, RCA premiered television, thrilling the millions of visitors to the Fair.