, 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

developed at ampex. that is the beginning of the track of video technology. silicon valley needs entertainment, silicon valley needs television technology all of those things beginning in the 1950's. the reason it is exhibited here is because it is kind of a time machine for the students and others who come here. seeing the dimensions of the machine, comparing it to the technologies we are more familiar with, vcr much smaller, phones now, doing audio recording, that is people of invention and innovation, and that sparks interest into going into the documents, may be questions about how they were used, seeing if we have documents describing that and articles in magazines. it is important to show this to students to spark the interest in doing research. >> when world war ii ended and the soldiers and sailors returned from the pacific and arrived in california, they were enthralled with the weather and what this place was like. this was a time in the 50's when palo alto was starting to grow. more thane popu

here's another device from the ampex collection. . this is the vx 1000. what you are looking at is a vcr from 1955 and 1956. that gives you an idea of how much miniaturize asian has occurred. what happened after ashman tries -- and crosby started a project that was focusing on recording video. project with a guy named -- ampex started a project with a guy named charlie ginsberg. among other things, two inch tape. things are much larger as they are additionally developing. is the v rx 1000. it is a protist type -- it is a prototype still. it was sold to cbs in los angeles. it was used for the television broadcast and news. these were quickly put into use. mostly around television news. one significant area once -- one significant area sports. a guy who was a well-known producer for sports broadcasting at abc, probably best known for a well-known program at that time worked for ampex where other video technologies like slow motion and stop motion were developed at ampex. this is the beginning of that trick -- of that track up a knology. silicon valley meets

slow motion, stop motion, all those things were developed at ampex. this is the beginning of that ,rack of video technology silicone valley meets the entertainment industry. silicon valley meets entertainment technology. all of those things beginning in the 1950's. it is exhibited out here because it is also a time machine for the students and others who have come here. seeing the dimension of the machine, comparing it to the technologies that we are more familiar with. the vcr that is much smaller. the phone for doing audio recording. that starts people thinking , invention, innovation, how the world has changed. it sparks interest. it goes deeper into the documents we have about those subjects. subjects, may be asking questions about how they were used, we have photographs that show people using them documents describing that articles in the magazines at the time so it is important students toe two spark the interest in doing the research. staffcer: our cities tour recently traveled to palo alto, california, to learn about its history. to watch more