{"id":8813,"date":"2014-05-15T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2014-06-04T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T17:21:42","slug":"electronic-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8813","title":{"rendered":"Electronic treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the Radio Corporation of America is in many ways the history of 20th-century American innovation. From the company\u2019s founding in 1919 to its sale in 1986, the RCA name was synonymous with products that shaped how Americans lived and worked. Long before the rise of Silicon Valley, RCA Laboratories, in Princeton, N.J., was at the center of the nation\u2019s consumer electronics industry, harnessing the creative impulses of thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians to systematize the invention of new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/davidsarnoff.pages.tcnj.edu\/2013\/08\/31\/innovations-that-changed-the-world-an-introduction-to-the-sarnoff-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new exhibition highlighting RCA\u2019s rich history opened on campus<\/a>. It draws from the more than 6,000 artifacts that the College inherited after the David Sarnoff Library\u2014RCA\u2019s main technical archive and museum\u2014closed in 2009. The installation covers the development of radio, television and broadcasting, as well as RCA\u2019s work in liquid-crystal displays, electron microscopy, solid-state physics and computers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg_displayed_gallery mceItem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php\/nextgen-attach_to_post\/preview\/id--8826\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Text by Benjamin Gross. Photography by Suzanne Kantak.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2013 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE Spectrum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare artifacts from the golden age of radio and television are featured in an ongoing campus exhibition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-spring-2014"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}