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4 unusual facts about David Sarnoff


45 rpm adapter

Commissioned by RCA president David Sarnoff and invented by Thomas Hutchison, spiders were prevalent in the 1960s and sold tens of millions per year.

Andrew Govender

He believes in David Sarnoff quote that is “…the will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success”.

Kenneth W. Bilby

Kenneth W. Bilby (October 7, 1918 – August 1, 1997) was a winner of the Legion of Honor, an executive vice president of RCA, and the author of The General, a book on David Sarnoff's role in the creation of RCA and television.

Sarnoff Mountains

Named for David Sarnoff, president of RCA (Radio Corporation of America), who provided radio equipment for receiving and transmitting that was used in the field and at Little America by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933–35).


1953–54 United States network television schedule

Despite hit filmed programs such as I Love Lucy, both William Paley of CBS and David Sarnoff of NBC were said to be determined to keep most programming on their networks live.

Nicholas F. Maxemchuk

He served as a member of the technical staff at the David Sarnoff Research Center from 1968–1976, and Bell Labs from 1976–1984, where he subsequently served as head of distributed systems research Department (1984–1996) and technology leader (1996–2001).


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Ali Akansu

He was an academic visitor at David Sarnoff Research Center (Sarnoff Corporation), at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, at Marconi Electronic Systems, and a Visiting Professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the New York University.