"Fritz Furth at Belines" 8/24/76 Side 1., 1976

Item — track: 28

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Scope and Contents

Fritz talks about his experiences with Phil. He recalls that Phil was called into his office to help design a specific tube that they needed. The tube was designed to help in the navigation of airplanes.
They talk a little bit about the iotron tube and its various applications and the struggles they had in creating and building it. EGG was the main purchaser of the iotron tube during this time.
He talks about a couple of presentations that they put together and talks about how some people thought it had real potential and others were highly skeptical.
Pem talks about the difficulty of crediting Philo with all that he did while not stretching the truth and maintaining credibility.
They talk about what they believe contributed the most to Phil's victory over RCA in regards to the invention of the image dissector tube. They had both thought that it was primarily because of Justin Tollman's ability to recall what Phil had told him, but were surprised that another source had claimed that it was mostly because of Professor Zworykin's inability to produce a working dissector tube of his own.

Dates

1976

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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