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Elmer W. Engstrom
Pages 150-155

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... In his career of thirty-nine years with RCA, he directed major research and engineering programs and advanced through increasingly important executive assignments involving the manufacture and marketing as well as the technical activities of the company.
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... When General Electric initiated commercial activity In motion picture sound equipment, he was placed in charge of the company's engineering development and apparatus design. In 1930, when the radio ant]
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... Engstrom lect RCA,s technical efforts and acted as the corporation's chief spokesman. He also served as vicechairman of the National Television System Committee, the industry committee that studied and recommended the stanciarcts eventually adopted by the FCC in 1953.
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... Electronics Engineers "for his leadership in management anct integration of research and development programs and for his foresighted application of the systems engineering concept in bringing television to the public." That same year he also received the William Proctor Prize for scientific achievement from the Scientific Research Society of America. His foreign honors included membership in the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the rank of commander in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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... He had a natural reserve that was sometimes mistaken for aloofness, yet he was always quick to acknowledge the thousands of acquaintances he had made over the years, making it a point to maintain personal relationships that dated back to his clays as a young engineer.
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