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I worked at the RCA Sarnoff R&D Lab back in the 80s, and there were a few old timers who were there to see the development of NTSC color TV. There was one legend that had it that there was to be a demo of a color camera and a monitor/receiver on the other side of the room. Story has it that the chroma subcarrier oscillator in the receiver wasn't working right, and so they hid a coax cable feeding the 3.58MHz carrier from the source to the receiver, under the carpet. The big boys never caught on... In a few days someone figured out how to do the chroma oscillator circuit.
We also had an old timer who was said to have invented the CRT. Vladmir Zworykin. He had an office in the building, but I think he rarely came in.
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