others and that can be tough to balance in our daily jobs. susan: you are very new and relatively new in your jobs, long careers ahead of you. we look forward to seeing the results of your work in so many different ways, and through all the various media we have talked about. matthew: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this is american history tv on c-span3, where each weekend we feature 48 hours of programs exploring our nation's past. you can check out our website on c-span.org/history. up next, more from palo alto as we visit the silicon valley archives at stanford university. this is all material related to a region known for its scientific innovation. silicon valley archives is a

project that started in the mid-1980's. silicon valley was from the early 1970's. it was beginning to be a parent that something unusual was going on -- apparent that something unusual was going on. this was a unique phenomenon, this concentration of industry, work, technology, and science. all of these things that we think of when we think about silicon valley. nothing had been done to document the history of this region. was we did have at stanford a set of archival collections from stanford of people who had been involved in the early development, people like fred turman, who is called the father of selah khan valley. his students -- of silicon valley. liketudents hewlett-packard who founded hp.

it sounded like a good idea to broaden that story out into what was going out -- going on outside of stanford. it was the stanford and silicon valley project, and, at the lettersg i wrote 100 out to different people in the valley, captains of industry, engineers, different sorts of people. i got one response to those 100 letters and that was from a man named douglas, who was known as the inventor of the computer mouse. that reply turned into the first collection of the silicon valley archives. we received that in 1986 and we were off to the races. it is still a very significant collection and it led to other things. i am standing in front of an is the first audio recording device that was

in 1948.t -- produced this is based on technology that was developed in germany. like so many other things, after the war was over, technologies originally from germany were usurped and brought over here. that became the basis for recording technology for ampex, which had done different kinds of war work. the founder of the company was looking to other areas to go into now that the kinds of things they had been producing doing -- during the war would not be needed. this one into the area of consumer electronics, entertainment industry, that kind of thing. this device was used in a variety of ways. one of the most important early uses was for bring -- bing crosby's radio broadcast.

he liked this technology so much that he himself became one of the first investors in technology in this region. enterprisesn crosby , which was involved with projects that led to the development of video recording, the other device in the space. this is another device from the ampex collection. this is the vrx 1000. fromre looking at a vcr 1955 or 1956. it gives you an idea of how much miniaturize asian -- miniaturization has happened. side startedon his a project on recording video. it is a different technology from film. at the same time ampex started a project. we had two teams racing to develop this new technology.

if you look at it you will see, among other things, two inch tape. things are much larger as they are none -- they are initially developing the technology. x 1000 because it is a prototype. even though it was a production machine, it was so -- it was sold to cbs los angeles and used for the news. these were pretty quickly put into use, mostly around television news and other kinds of television broadcasts. thateally significant area this video technology moved into and changed the way we view things is sports. who was veryue, sportsown for producing and a broadcaster. best known for the wide world of sports worked with ampex where

other video tech knology like slow motion, stop motion and all of those things were developed at ampex. it is the beginning of that track of video technology, silicon valley meets the entertainment industry meets television and technology. this is beginning in the 1950's. the reason it is exhibited is because it is also a kind of time machine for the students and others who come here of, seeing the dimensions of the machine and comparing it to the technologies that we are more familiar with. vcr that is a much smaller, a phone for doing that audio recording. that starts people thinking invention, andd innovation. how the world has changed, and

interest and going into the documents. maybe asking questions about how they were used, seeing if we have photographs or documents describing that, or articles that appeared in magazines. it is important to be able to show some of this to people, particularly to students just to spark that interest in doing research. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] tour staff went to palo alto california to learn about its history. watch more video visit [no audio] -- c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv every weekend all weekend. on american history tv, today at 2:00 p.m. eastern, our interview of navajo code talkers. turkey, space,

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