[QuadList] blueprints for the 1938 RCA Empire State TV antenna discovered at SMECC

[Ted Langdell]

Pretty cool, Ed.

Here are some links to info about the Empire antenna:

About the building: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
About broadcasting from there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building#Broadcast_stations

About NBC's early antennas there: http://www.lnl.com/esbantennas.htm 
scanned from a document provided by QuadList member David Crosthwait.

Early RCA television field trials using a variety of Empire antennas: http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_field_trls.html
on the EarlyTelevision.Org website

And Ed's scans about early NBC Television on the SMECC website:
http://www.smecc.org/nbc_television.htm

Ted

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On Apr 7, 2014, at 10:05 PM, couryhouse at aol.com wrote:

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> Blueprints  for the 1938 RCA Empire State TV antenna discovered at SMECC
> Is it unusual to have these?
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> They were in a file box   with the Brookhaven Cyclotron   Blueprints.
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> they have been probably folded up since '38   I need to 'relax' the paper
> but in the meantime have been transferred to the  banks vault in case  this is the only set
> around.
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> This  would be the   antenna  used  for  39  worlds  fair   historic   rollout  eh?
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> Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
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Ted

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