Explore space (exploration) in our latest blog post about a set of RCA commemorative matchbooks.
Explore space (exploration) in our latest blog post about a set of RCA commemorative matchbooks.
How a duck became a scientific spokesman Continue Reading
This week, we’re highlighting the career of Irving Wolff, a physicist who, in his years at RCA, helped pioneer radar technology. Continue Reading
Seeing the future was as easy as seeing yourself at the 1964 World’s Fair Continue Reading
A booklet for war production workers highlights gendered assumptions about technological understanding. Continue Reading
In 1937, famed Italian composer Arturo Toscanini came out of retirement to conduct the newly formed NBC Symphony Orchestra at the behest of RCA’s chairman, David Sarnoff. This talk by the Sarnoff Collection curator will trace the history of Toscanini’s time with NBC, show some of the Toscanini artifacts we have in the collection, and… Continue Reading
This year will be an election year like no other, and with so many ballots being cast away from physical voting booths, we’re unlikely to know the results by election night. Join us at the Sarnoff for a talk about the history of using computers to predict election results. Continue Reading
Are you a person of class, refinement, and taste? Do you live in the 1950s? Then perhaps a color television is right for you! Continue Reading
Space cadet or journalist? The Walkie-Lookie of the 1950s looked like it was straight out of a bad sci-fi film. Continue Reading
Join us on the last Sunday of every month for Sunday at the Sarnoff, a conversation about topics from the intersection of technology, history, and culture. Continue Reading