R.R. Wright (1913-2009) was an employee of the RCA Corporation, one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, televisions, and consumer electronics products. Richard Ridgway Wright, the son of Henry Hall "Harry" Wright (1881-1956) and Mary Satterthwaite "May" Ridgway (1885-1975), was born at the Wright family's ancestral homestead "Merino Hill" in Wrightsville, New Jersey. He was a descendent of West Jersey pioneer Quaker families and the great-grandson of Philadelphia merchant and entrepreneur Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845), who built "Merino Hill" in the early nineteenth century. Beginning in 1940, R.R. Wright worked in the model shop at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, later the David Sarnoff Research Center. In 1959, he was assigned to the new Astro-Electronics Division, which was involved in the design of satellites and their components and was part of the team that developed the first TIROS-1 weather satellite. Wright retired in 1973, and died in Crosswicks, New Jersey in 2009.