36. "Cliff, Pem, and Philo III" 6/11/77 Side 2., 1977

Item — track: 36

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Scope and Contents

Cliff shows them a number of his patents in work related to television throughout his career.
Cliff talks about an invention that would help with the transmission of television and how RCA had a very similar invention but were unable to actually get it to work because they missed something fundamental about how it operated.
Cliff talks about a tube he invented that were still in heavy production at the time of the interview that were extremely profitable because of its remarkable stability that made it very popular.

Dates

1977

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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