Ingenious space age electronic components - pretty Donna Loar exhibits some of the Space Age electron Tubes made at RCA's manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pa. The company has just announced a $11.6 million expansion program for this plant. Some of these conversion tubes shown help outer space vehicles "see" and make complex measurements of distant planets. Others are used in military equipment and TV cameras as well as specialized industrial and scientific instruments. Miss Loar holds an osillograph tube which is widely used in electronic test equipment.
RCA expansion plans for RCA tubes - With a color TV picture tube and typical industrial and military tubes in foreground, executives of RCA Electronic Components and Devices discuss a new $11.6 million expansion program for these products at the company's plant in Lancaster, Pa. Douglas Y. Smith, left, Vice President of the Components and Devices organization points out on airview photo the location of a new 154,000 square foot manufacturing building. At right are John B. Farese, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Television Picture Tube Division and C. E. Burnett, Division Vice President and General Manager, RCA Industrial Tube and Semiconductor Division.
RCA expansion at Lancaster, Pa. - This airview of the RCA Electronic Components and Devices plant at Lancaster, Pa., shows where two new buildings will be constructed as part of a new $11.6 million expansion program. At left is a 154,000 square foot expansion for conversion tube manufacturing operations. The new building on the right is a 46,000 square foot area that will be utilized for color TV picture tube design and application, as well as chemical and physics engineering.
