Scientists at Sarnoff were responsible for several historic inventions, including the color television, digital memory, electron microscopy, liquid crystal display (LCD), and other advancements in vision, video, and semiconductor technology (Magoun, 2003).
Woods near Sarnoff, 2008
This project contains microscopic images, landscape photographs, aerial views, and archival materials from the David Sarnoff Research Library3, along with my own interpretations of this complex site.
1 David Sarnoff ran the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). His center in Princeton was dedicated to research and technological advancements. The facilities were re-named three times: first to RCA Laboratories, then Sarnoff Coproration, and finally SRI International after it was acquired by SRI in the early 2000s.
2 EPA’s Superfund program is responsible for cleaning up some of the nation’s most contaminated land and responding to environmental emergencies, oil spills and natural disasters.
3 The David Sarnoff Library, which contained extensive records of everything from technological manuals to photographs of employees growing apples, was housed at the Princeton labs from 1967-2009. In 2010, the archives were transfered to Hagley Museum & Library in Wilmington, DE.
Seeds planted on Sarnoff field photographed at 20x, 50x, and 100x, Ben Seabury for RCA Radiations, 1975