Remembering RCA’s Harry Wright

I’m sad to announce the passing of one of RCA Broadcast’s brightest engineers…our friend Harry Wright. Below is part of his obituary, and at the link, a story I did on Harry’s long career at RCA. Mr. Wright is on the right in the photo. He will be missed.

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Harry G. Wright of Fort Myers, Florida, passed away April 17th. Harry was a mechanical engineer for RCA Camden. A graduate of Drexel Institute, Harry started with RCA in 1945, and was part of the beginning of the color television industry in America. He invented television cameras such as the RCA TP-16, TP-35, TP-6, TR-22, TK-42, TK-43, and TK-44. As a member of the TK-76 camera team, he was awarded the I.K. Kessler, Tiger Award for 1976, and the David Sarnoff Award for 1977. The blue RCA cameras could be seen on the sidelines of every football and basketball game in the 70s and 80s, shooting the action. Harry won four Emmy awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for best Technical or Engineering Achievement. He also held numerous patents for his work with RCA.

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