"At Cliff's house with Cliff, Arch, Harold, and Pem" 1/4/75 Side 1., 1975

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She says she is working on getting Phil's name in more history books because she is sad that her younger family will grow up with less evidence that he was so influential in the development of the television.
Cliff says he is unsure exactly which tubes would have been older.
Arch says that the techniques for glass blowing tubes were developed by Charlie Litten at Federal in about 1930 or 1931 and this allowed for the creation of large tubes for transmitters.
He says that he began to work for Federal in 1929 but was laid off when the lab he was working in closed due to the great depression. He went to see Phil and began to work for him after that. They get into some of the more technical work that he spent time on during his early time with Phil's company.
Harold says he joined Phil's company in the winter of 1935 just before 1936. He says that when Cliff picked him up from the depot after midnight they went to check out the lab before taking him home. He says that everyone except for the glass blowers were still at the lab and working.
Phil's wife tells a story about hiring a nurse to run the clean room during World War 2. She says that a doctor that had previously operated on Phil came out to see the clean room and remarked that it was cleaner than his operating room.

Dates

1975

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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