Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RCA began to investigate radio reception in a tent at Riverhead, L. I. Its facilities then were as clumsy as the rickety Ford the technicians used to get from home to work...
...even hardheaded Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones was impressed. Dr. Hansgirg, asleep in his California home, got a 1 a.m. telephone call from Kaiser: get to Manhattan right away and start drawing up plans. In Manhattan a suite of offices was knocked together on the ninth floor of the RCA Building. There Dr. Hansgirg and Reilly started getting their plant on paper. Kaiser shuttled back and forth between the office and Washington, always a half-hour late for appointments that extended all the way around the clock. When the loan was finally approved by Jesse Jones last week, the plans...
...RCA laboratories in Camden announced a new, simpler electron microscope for educational and research laboratories. Like earlier and bigger models, the new instrument uses beams of electrons instead of beams of light for magnification, furnishes enlargements up to 100,000 diameters, but it can be plugged into an ordinary electric outlet...
...sound track, cut and patched it eventually into 11,953 feet. When the recordings were played back in a specially equipped studio in Hollywood, brother engineers were astounded to hear Soundman Garity's sound follow characters across the screen, roar down from the ceiling, whisper behind their backs. RCA and Disney engineers, having built his equipment at a cost of $85,000, called it "Fantasound," and crowed that it would revolutionize cinema production like nothing since the invention of Technicolor...
...fancy recordings, and a technical bill that overtops Snow White's, the total figure for the production amounted to $2.250.000. Because Engineer Garity's new sound mechanism is so complicated and expensive, only twelve theatres at a time will be equipped to show Fantasia, and RCA sound-equipment manufacturers figure that it will take several years before small-town cinema houses can get the gadgets to perform it. For the present. Fantasia will not be distributed like ordinary films, but will tour the U. S. like twelve road-show companies. But Walt Disney expects Fantasia...