At the link below are hundreds of photos, research papers and even two videos (NBC’s First 50 Years) that have been curated to the pages of The Hagley Digital Archives site. Most of what is here is from the David Sarnoff Library collection that no longer has a physical home, but does have a virtual home at this address. This link will take you to the 5th of this 6 page display so feel free to not only scroll, but also page backward and forward to see a collection of RCA television history that you will only see here.

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The are photos here (that usually have a description of the scene on the back side), cover everything from the Baird scanners to the early General Electric/Alexanderson mechanical system, the development of early electronic color receivers, projection systems, tube research and development, remote systems, video tape R&D, and rare photos that also include RCA equipment ads that were mostly for broadcasting publications.

At the top of the page is RCA’s TRT 1B quadraplex video tape recorder which was their first video system. Below are a few of the hundreds of photos in the collection that show RCA’s 2 1/2-pound portable vidicon camera in 1957, the first American television mobile units delivered to NBC in 1938, RCA engineer Albert Rose who was one of the developers of the Image Orthicon tube and a 1938 photo of the FCC commissioners inspecting RCA’s first mobile Iconoscope model in Washington DC.