The Sarnoff Collection is pleased to present a theremin concert by Mano Divina and the Divine Hand Ensemble on Wednesday, April 8, at 4:00 p.m. in Mayo Concert Hall in the Music Building. The event is free and open to the public. The theremin is one of the earliest and most extraordinary electronic music instruments.… Continue Reading
On Saturday, March 21, from 11:00 to 1:00, as part of the Trenton Computer Festival, the Sarnoff Collection is offering a 3D printing demo and design tutorial. This short, drop-in workshop will enable visitors to create object designs that can be printed. Rebecca Mercuri and Kevin Meredith will teach you how to use FreeCAD, an… Continue Reading
On Monday, February 23 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., the Sarnoff Collection will host a presentation of student designed state-of-the-art technologies for expanding and enhancing the experience of visiting TCNJ’s Sarnoff Collection. For the second year, students in TCNJ’s Interactive Multimedia Department’s course “Interactive Exhibition Design” have created a variety of new multimedia tools for… Continue Reading
On Wednesday, November 12, David C. Brock, Senior Research Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, will speak about RCA and the Early History of Microcircuitry. His lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be at 5 p.m. in Roscoe West Hall. David C. Brock is a historian of science and technology, who specializes… Continue Reading
The Sarnoff Collection is pleased to be launching a series of lectures that explore the many innovations in business, science, engineering, and technology pioneered by David Sarnoff and RCA. Continue Reading
From April 12 through May 11, 2012, a special exhibition of artifacts from The Sarnoff Collection was presented in the TCNJ Library to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, an event in which David Sarnoff played a significant role. Below are texts and images from that exhibition. In 1912, Sarnoff… Continue Reading
TCNJ will be the site of the daylong symposium “Mercer Makes: Innovation and Technology in the Capital County” to be held on Friday, October 4, from 8:300 to 4:30 in the Education Building, Room 212. The program will include presentations by Dr. Benjamin Gross and Dr. Alexander Magoun that will examine the history of RCA… Continue Reading
In conjunction with TCNJ’s two-day workshop, Mind, Music, and Invention: Creativity at the Intersection of Music and Computation, an exhibition of artifacts from The Sarnoff Collection related to the history of electronic music was presented in the lobby of the Music Building. Below are a selection of texts and images from that exhibition. Although… Continue Reading