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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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On 20 April 1939, David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Today we are on the eve of launching a new industry, based on imagination, on scientific research and accomplishment,” he proclaimed. That industry was television.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Most days, most cars are going to have lots of extra battery capacity,” said Mr. Kempton, noting that on average, American automobiles get driven for just one hour each day. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added. There are about 600,000 GHE installations working in the U.S.

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