"Harriet Stix, L.A. Times" 6/27/77 Side 2., 1977

Item — track: 37

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Scope and Contents

They talk about the financial backers who financed Phil's labwork initially. Philo believes that the quality of these backers, who mostly came from banking backgrounds, indicated the quality of his father's work.
Pem talks about Phil's early life and his interest in electronics from a young age.
Philo recounts the story of Phil and Justin Tolman and their interactions during Phil's first year of high school in Rigby, Idaho.
From the time Phil was 14 until he was almost 19, he worked odd jobs and things like that to help his family, which was suffering due to the Great Depression.
Pem and Phil were married when they were 18 and 19, respectively. They had planned on waiting to be married but because Phil had to move to San Francisco to work on the television, they were married on only three days' notice.
At the time, all of the larger companies were working on a mechanical television involving what Philo and Pem refer to as a scanning disk. This was not working well at the time, primarily because they say that the disk could not be made to spin fast enough, nor could it be machined precisely enough.
Although it worked, it could only create a picture of 30-40 lines, leaving the picture very difficult to see. The last seventeen minutes are blank.

Dates

1977

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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