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David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Russian [4] and American businessman who played an important role in the American history of radio and television. He led RCA for most of his career in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.
The cornerstone of Sarnoff Corporation's David Sarnoff Research Center in the Princeton vicinity was laid just before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. That facility, later Sarnoff Corporation headquarters, was the site of several historic developments, including color television , CMOS integrated circuit technology and electron microscopy .
David Sarnoff with the first RCA videotape recorder, 1954 RCA Television Quad head 2-inch color recorder-reproducer used at broadcast studios from the late-1960s to the early 1980s [44] In 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II, the cornerstone was laid for a research and development facility in Princeton, New Jersey called ...
David Sarnoff (1929), by Samuel Johnson Woolf, National Portrait Gallery. Seeking a customer for Photophone, then general manager of RCA David Sarnoff approached financier Joseph P. Kennedy in late 1927 about using the system for his Film Booking Offices of America (FBO). A Kennedy-led investment group had acquired the modest-sized, low-budget ...
The film focused primarily [5] on the three pioneers [6] of radio in America: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. [7] The program interspersed audio and musical highlights of "old time" radio with the stories, achievements, failures, scams and bitter feuds between each of the main protagonists. [8]
The Farnsworth Invention is a stage play by Aaron Sorkin adapted from an unproduced screenplay about Philo Farnsworth's first fully functional and completely all-electronic television system and David Sarnoff, the RCA president who stole the design.
A 9-year-old boy visiting New York City for the holidays will remain hospitalized "for quite some time," the boy's mother said after they both were pinned by a taxi cab on Christmas Day. The taxi ...
Sarnoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ann Sarnoff (born c. 1962), American businesswoman; Arthur Sarnoff (1912–2000), American artist; David Sarnoff (1891–1971), Belarusian-born American radio and television technology pioneer and businessman