The RCA Selectron -- The people of the Radio Corporation of America
RCA was involved in both the development of the Selectron tube and with the design and delivery of a "turnkey" memory system based upon the Selectron. Development of the tube was primarily at the Princeton Laboratories, while tube production was the task of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania facility.
The Princeton facility was known as the RCA Laboratories and was subsequently named the David Sarnoff Research Center in honor of the principal driving force in RCA.
After the purchase of RCA by General Electric the DSRC became the Sarnoff Corporation, a unit of SRI, International.
Sarnoff Corporation, as well as the David Sarnoff Library, is at 201 Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey.
RCA Lancaster was built, and operated by RCA, as a production facility of electron tubes for the military needs of World War II.
After the war, the sprawling facility became part of the RCA Electron Tube Division.
Subsequent to a management buyout forced by the General Electric takeover, RCA Lancaster became the headquarters of Burle Industries,
named for Dr. Erich Burlefinger. It is still located at the New Holland Avenue site in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
doing business as Burle Technologies, part of the France based PHOTONIS Group.
Jan A. Rajchman, PhD, Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
IEEE History Center Biography
IEEE History Center Oral History, 1975
National Academies Press, Memorial Tribute, 1992
Richard L. Snyder, Jr., Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Newspaper article from 1981
Obituary
George W. Brown, PhD, Mathematician, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey; 1944 - 1946
The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s
The Computer Museum, Johnniac Lecture, 1998, Comments
Memoriam
George A. Morton, Electrical Engineer / Physicist, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Leslie E. Flory, Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Les Flory
Early Television History
Flory Family Genealogy
Igor E. Grosdoff, Senior Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Milton Rosenberg, Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Paul Rudnick, Physicist, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
University of Chicago memoriam
Erik Stemme, Visiting International Intern, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Sweden
Early Computers in Scandinavia
The BESK Boys
BESK
DataSaab
Stan Forgue, Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Richard O. Endres, Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
The CK722 Museum
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, PhD, Scientist, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
IEEE History Center Oral History, 1975
National Academies Press, Memorial Tribute, 1984
Clarence D. Tuska, Director of Patents, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
American Radio Relay League
Paul G. Herkart, Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Obituary
Max H. Messner, Electrical Engineer, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Dietrich A. Jenny, Physical Chemist, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Alan. M. Glover, PhD, RCA Tube Division, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
W. Widmaier, RCA Tube Division, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
C. J. Young, RCA Camden, New Jersey
J. A. Briggs, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
J. E. Dilley, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
A. S. Jensen
J. P. Smith
Per Hals, Visiting International Intern, The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Sweden
H. E. McCandless, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
Arnold A. Cohen, RCA Tube Division, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Charles Babbage Institute Oral Histories, 1983, 1987
John Vassos, Industrial Designer / Artist, RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
The Artwork of John Vassos
The Papers of John Vassos
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