22-11-2019, 03:16 PM
What a lovely bit of engineering. Totally pointless but so what!
Nobody has pointed out the error in my original post. The Nipper painting was done decased before EMI was formed. It was presented to the Gramophone Company (possibly still the Gramophone and Typrewriter Company). EMI was formed in 1931 from the merger of the Gramophone Company with Columbia Graphophone Company.
The web of UK and US companies that made up EMI and related companies was complex. Look it up if you want to know more. It caused accusations from Baird that EMI was US owned. The EMI Emitron camera tube was strikingly similar to the RCA Iconoscope. It isn't 100% settled as to how much EMI engineers used RCA technology. There was certainly some transfer from US to UK but how much is a difficult question to answer.
Nobody has pointed out the error in my original post. The Nipper painting was done decased before EMI was formed. It was presented to the Gramophone Company (possibly still the Gramophone and Typrewriter Company). EMI was formed in 1931 from the merger of the Gramophone Company with Columbia Graphophone Company.
The web of UK and US companies that made up EMI and related companies was complex. Look it up if you want to know more. It caused accusations from Baird that EMI was US owned. The EMI Emitron camera tube was strikingly similar to the RCA Iconoscope. It isn't 100% settled as to how much EMI engineers used RCA technology. There was certainly some transfer from US to UK but how much is a difficult question to answer.
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