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RCA Institutes

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

RCA home study course materials

 Collection
Accession: 2900
Abstract:

RCA Institute, Inc. was an electronics school and subsidiary of the RCA Corporation, one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. The school opened in 1909 as the Marconi Institute. This is a small collection of RCA home study lesson booklets for courses in television servicing, radio-television electronics, and electronic fundamentals. The instruction manuals all date to the 1950s.

Dates: 1950-1962

RCA Institutes, Transmitter and Receiver Laboratory manuals

 Collection
Accession: 2864
Abstract:

RCA Institute, Inc. was an electronics school and subsidiary of the RCA Corporation, one of the country's leading manufacturers and vendors of radios, phonographs, televisions, and a wide array of consumer and military electronics products. The school specialized in basic electronics and electronics technology; computer technology; and courses for radio, television, and air‐conditioning servicing, as well as its traditional courses in amateur radio‐operator skills. These two educational instructional manuals were bound together. One focuses on RF-I transmitters, while the other concerns RF-II receivers. The laboratory manuals were intended to be guides for students at the RCA Institute in their work in the laboratory. They include questions and experiments to correlate to classroom lectures and practical work. The manuals' copyright dates are 1945 and 1946.

Dates: 1945; 1946