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George H. Brown
Pages 35-40

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... 1987, at his home in Princeton, New jersey. After a brilliant career in electrical engineering research and engineering management, George Brown retired from RCA in 1972.
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... From the position of member of the technical staff, he was appointed director of the Systems Research Laboratory in 1952; chief engineer, Commercial and Industrial Electronic Products at Camden in 1957; vice-president, Engineering, for the RCA Corporation in 1959; vice-president, Research and Engineering, 1961; executive vice-presiclent, Research and Engineering, 1965; and executive vice-president, Patents and Licensing, 1968. He served as a member of the RCA board of directors from 1965 until his retirement in 1972.
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... During his career at RCA, George Brown was awarded eighty patents and published over one hundred technical papers. Of the most significant patents are the turnstile antenna mentioned earlier; a vestigial-sideband filter for VHF broadcasting; and a method for bonding thermoplastic materials by radio frequency heating, used initially in the construction of plastic raincoats and still used today in the manufacture of plastic bags and other products.
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... Peter Goldmark of CBS, who had been working for many years on a field-sequential method for color involving a revolving disk of color filters placed in front of both the television camera and the display tubes, had petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval of the field-sequential system for commercial broadcasts in color.
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... Through the encouragement of his many colleagues and friends, his early retirement years were devoted to writing his memoirs entitled and part of which I wasRecollections of a Research Engineer, (1979, Angus Cupar Pub fishers, ~17 Hunt Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540) , which is replete with his amusing stories while at the same time constituting a reliable history of the technical development of television broadcasting and related fields.
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