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.
$11.6 million planning session - executives of RCA Electronic Components and Devices review plans for a $11.6 million expansion of the company's plant at Lancaster, Pa. The appropriation will be spent on two new buildings, providing 200,000 additional square feet of space for color picture tube engineering, industrial and military tube manufacturing. Shown, left to right, are: D. Y. Smith, Vice President, RCA Electronic Components and Devices; J. 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 and Semiconductor Division.
