Chapter 5
EMI and the Television Commission
Electric and Musical Industries, EMI, a new holding company, was formed on 21 April 1931, by merging The Gramophone Company with The Columbia Graphophone Company Limited. Alan Blumlein and all of his colleagues at Columbia now became a part of a vast scientific and engineering team at the new company whose interests were enormous at that time. They included audio recording as well as television which, through their partnership with RCA Victor in America, was about to dominate the next eight years of research.
Co-operation
In April 1931, RCA began to send their new partners, EMI, several of Zworykin’s new kinescopes in order for W.D. Wright to attempt to build a receiver that could pick up the Baird ...
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