EARLY TRANSISTOR
HISTORY AT RCA
Gerald B. Herzog – First Transistor Television
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RCA was second only to Bell Labs in the number of patents related to
transistor inventions in the early 1950s.
The above photo (from the 1953 RCA publication “Transistors”) shows a
number of historic transistorized devices developed at the RCA Labs and
demonstrated at an RCA licensee transistor symposium in 1952 in Princeton,
NJ. Of particular note is the first
completely transistorized television receiver, shown on the left side of the
above photo, between two experimental transistor radios. Jerry Herzog was one
of the engineers responsible for the design and construction of this
television – he is shown to the left in a photograph from the same 1953
publication, along with a closeup view of the television. (The large device
in the background of the photo is a piece of transistor test equipment from
that era). In the following pages of
this Oral History, Jerry provides personal and technical commentary regarding
his work on this truly historic device, which is now on display at the
Smithsonian Museum.
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