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Early Television Museum
2007 Convention
Presentation
How RCA's WWII
Military Television Development Shaped Modern Warfare
By: Maurice Schechter
Date: 4-6 May 2007
Place: Early television Convention, Hilliard, Ohio
Modern warfare using remote
transmission of images as a means of weapons guidance and aerial
reconnaissance has its roots before WWII, to an inventor who saw
the possibilities of an emerging technology and his boss who
supported its successful innovation. The men: Vladimir Zworykin and
David Sarnoff of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The
technology: television.
Maurice Schechter's well illustrated presentation will trace the
development of military television from a memo Zworykin wrote in
1934 to the end of the war, where practical TV-guided weapons were
used in combat. Military technology that made post war television
possible.
Mr. Schechter's presentation will include a demonstration of the
very rare restored WWII television equipment used to guide these
weapons. The complete system from iconoscope camera to the
bombardier's monitor with its green image will be making pictures
over the air as if it was 1944
Among his many images, he will be showing archival footage of the
developmental TV bombs, filmed recordings / kinescopes from actual
bombing runs and an interview with the developer of Army Air Forces
GB-4 television guided bomb used in the European theatre.
Examples of WWII
Television Guided Weapons
About the Speaker: Mr.
Schechter is chief engineer for DuArt Film and Video in New York
City and has spent nearly 20 years researching this subject from
the proving grounds of Nevada to the National Archives.
WWII Block III Television equipment
to be shown at the Convention
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