The MTT-S Historical Exhibit will be open Tuesday through Thursday during the regular exhibition hours, located near the meeting rooms of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. As in past years, the exhibit will feature hardware, documentation, and photographs of original microwave technologies such as klystrons, magnetrons, traveling wave tubes, lighthouse triodes, and more. These devices provide the link between early innovations and the contemporary devices used today.
As a nod to local microwave history, a limited exhibit based on items in The Sarnoff Collection will be on display. The Sarnoff Collection was originally established by RCA in 1967 as the David Sarnoff Library. The museum collection, which comprises more than 6,000 artifacts related to the major developments in communication during the 20th century, was donated to The College of New Jersey in 2010. The Sarnoff Collection at TCNJ includes artifacts related to David Sarnoff's life; RCA, NBC, Victor Talking Machine Company, and Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America; the history of radio, television, broadcasting, audio and video recording and reproduction, electron microscopy, radar, vacuum tubes, transistors, solid-state physics, semiconductors, lasers, liquid-crystal displays, integrated circuits, microprocessors, computers, communications satellites, and other technologies RCA played an important role in inventing and developing; and some of the many people, beside Sarnoff, who made these technologies work.
The Historical Electronics Museum is the permanent home of the MTT-S Historical Collection between Symposia. The Museum holds many microwave-related items besides the MTT-S collection, including a complete SCR-584 radar that was used with a proximity fuse in World War II. It also contains an impressive library of over 10,000 books and 11,000 journals. The Museum is located near Baltimore-Washington International Airport, approximately 20 minutes outside of Baltimore.
