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Harold B. Law
Pages 242-249

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... An earlier achievement was his method for making the delicate glass/ mesh target required for image orthicon camera tubes; the method included a technique for making very fine hightransmission metal meshes from a ruled glass master. Harold Law was an active, quiet, kindly man, who ~lelighted in helping those he knew and in benefiting countless others through his inventions.
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From page 244...
... He found that he liked designing, fabricating, and testing experimental electron devices because, as he said, "it suited my do-it-yourself nature." When RCA consolidated its research in new buildings near Princeton, New jersey, in 1942, the newly married Law moved there and became part of a group whose task was to develop the image orthicon tube invented by Albert Rose. Rose guided the overall effort; Law worked on the secondary-electron-emitting target (a very thin sheet of special glass mounted a few microns from a very fine mesh metal screen)
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From page 245...
... After World War II, major efforts were initiated to develop color television. The approach advocated by RCA was to provide a compatible color system that is, one whose pictures could be seen in color on new color sets and in monochrome on existing black-and-white sets.
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From page 246...
... experimenting with means to deposit the hundreds of thousands of phosphor dots in exactly the right spots, Saw conceived the idea of using a light source placed at the deflection center of one electron beam. The light source would shine through the mask apertures and strike a transparent plate coated with a photosensitive binder containing one of the phosphors, affixing the phosphor clots in those locations.
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... He received the Television Broadcasters Association Award (19461; the {EKE Zworykin Television Prize (19551; the Consumer Electronics Scientist of the Year Awarcl (19664; the IEEE I=amme Medal (1975~; and the Frances Rice Darne Memorial Awarct (1975~. From Kent State University, he received the Outstanding Graduate Citation (1959)
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... He once told Ruth that he enjoyed] his work with RCA as much as his work on the farm.
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