Re: [ARSCLIST] RCA and Victor (was Edison and Scott and Johnson and....)

[Aaron Z Snyder <azs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  Actually, Victor and 
> Columbia failed at about the same time Edison did, but they 
> benefitted from radio companies that bought them out. 
> 
> 
> David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx

In the case of RCA and Victor, RCA was developing rotating-disc television,
and felt that Victor could provide expertise in designing the motors
required to rotate the discs. Although mechanical scanning rapidly became
obsolete (thank goodness), the marriage of the two companies resulted in a
treasure-trove of recordings during the years which followed.


AZS