RCA/Thomson Lancaster records 2464.74 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library RCA/Thomson Lancaster records 2464.74 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 4 Historical Note ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Arrangement ................................................................................................................................................... 9 Administrative Information .......................................................................................................................... 10 Related Materials ......................................................................................................................................... 11 Controlled Access Headings ........................................................................................................................ 12 Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 13 Ellie Adams papers ................................................................................................................................... 13 Company serials ........................................................................................................................................ 14 Gary Gendel papers ................................................................................................................................... 15 Istvan Gorog papers .................................................................................................................................. 17 Departmental memos, progress reports, and executive summaries ....................................................... 17 EAGLE project ....................................................................................................................................... 19 EPS project ............................................................................................................................................. 22 "Ice Tea" project ..................................................................................................................................... 23 TIGER project and external consultant reports ..................................................................................... 24 General .................................................................................................................................................... 24 Lab notebooks ........................................................................................................................................... 26 A.M. Morrell papers .................................................................................................................................. 65 Product promotional literature .................................................................................................................. 67 Martin R. Royce papers ............................................................................................................................ 70 Service guides and parts directories ......................................................................................................... 71 Technical data ............................................................................................................................................ 73 Electronic Industries Association (EIA) ................................................................................................. 74 Picture tube cumulative file ................................................................................................................... 76 Tube specification process files ............................................................................................................. 79 PIX publications ................................................................................................................................... 145 ST publications ..................................................................................................................................... 176 TPS publications ................................................................................................................................... 178 General .................................................................................................................................................. 181 General ..................................................................................................................................................... 189 Audiovisual .............................................................................................................................................. 195 - Page 2 - RCA/Thomson Lancaster records 2464.74 Photographs ............................................................................................................................................. 197 Picture tube and electron gun models .................................................................................................. 198 Promotional material and research papers ........................................................................................... 199 Design .................................................................................................................................................... 200 Production ............................................................................................................................................. 201 Buildings and grounds .......................................................................................................................... 201 Gallium arsenide and germanium laser experiments ........................................................................... 202 RCA Picture Tube Division ................................................................................................................. 202 RCA electronic components and devices ............................................................................................. 202 - Page 3 - RCA/Thomson Lancaster records 2464.74 Summary Information Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: Thomson Multimedia Creator: RCA Corporation Title: RCA/Thomson Lancaster records ID: 2464.74 Date [inclusive]: 1929-2006 Physical Description: 91 Linear Feet General Physical (AVD portion only) 383 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. and Description (AVD larger; 47 photographic prints : b&w ; 4 x 6 in. and smaller.; 24 portion only): photographic print : color ; 8 x 10 in.; 167 photographic print : color ; 4 x 6 in. and smaller; 92 photographic negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 26 photographic negatives : b&w ; 3 x 5 in.; 1481 photographic slides : color ; 35 mm.; 4 photographic slides : b&w : 35mm.; 64 glass lantern slides : b&w ; 3 x4 in.; 100 plastic lantern slides : b&w ; 3 x 4 in.; 28 transparencies : color ; 7 x 7 in. and larger; 3 transparencies : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 22 transparencies : b&w ; 3 x 5 and smaller.; 3 videocassettes (VHS) : ½ in.; 2 videocassettes (Digital Betacam).; 1 reel (400 ft.) : si., b&w & color. ; 16mm.; 1 reel (500 ft.) : sd., color ; 16mm. 2 photographic prints : color ; 11 x 14 in. 1 photographic print : color ; 16 x 20 in. mounted on board. 4 photographic prints : color ; 15 x 17 in. mounted on board. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The Radio Corporation of America (RCA)'s Picture Tube Division, later known as the Video Component and Display Division, was headquartered at a research and production facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1987, the French firm Thomson Consumer Electronics acquired RCA's consumer electronics business, including the Lancaster plant, and operated the facility until Thomson shut down its consumer electronics operations in 2005. Materials in the collection document a diverse array of activities at the RCA/Thomson Lancaster plant between the facility's early days of operation and its closure. Corporate memoranda, correspondence, product technical data, photographs, and audiovisual materials trace the development of RCA/Thomson's picture tube product line. Corporate publications chronicle major moments in company history. - Page 4- RCA/Thomson Lancaster records 2464.74 ^ Return to Table of Contents Historical Note The Radio Corporation of America (RCA)'s Picture Tube Division, later known as the Video Component and Display Division, was headquartered at a company research and production facility on New Holland Avenue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The site had originally been a military electronics production plant owned by the United States Department of the Navy and operated by RCA during the Second World War. After its purchase of the site from the Navy in 1949, RCA used the property to support its efforts in the race to perfect a color television set. The firm was in direct competition with CBS, which