1958 Edition RCA Radio & TV Course

Or, Learn Radio and TV Repair In Your Home.

The RCA Institutes was founded in 1909 by Guglielmo Marconi as the Marconi Institute (later renamed the "RCA Institutes") and was a private post-secondary correspondence school based in Washington, D.C. David Sarnoff was an early graduate of the Marconi Institute, and was one of the founders of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). Sarnoff acquired The Marconi Institute in 1919 and changed the name to RCA Institutes.

After the divisions of RCA Corporation were sold in the 1980s, RCA Institutes was separated from the company and setup as an independent educational institution that eventually changed its name to Technical Career Institutes, or TCI, currently located in mid-town Manhattan, New York. (from a TCI Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2008 ).

All documents open in a new window. Many thanks to ARF (AntiqueRadios.com Forum) member 'reeves03' for the original PDFs, and 'google books' for the swell 'RCA Institutes Ad' from Popular Science Magazine, October 1958.

This site serves as a mirror of the original posting.

Study Group 1, Electronic Fundamentals

• How To Study - Effectively
• Service Practices 1: How To Identify Receiver Parts.pdf
• Service Practices 2: How To Use Tools.pdf
• Theory Lesson 1: Wave Motion and Communication
• Experiment Lesson 1: How To Solder
• Theory Lesson 2: Schematic Symbols and How to Use Them
• Experiment Lesson 2: How to Do Advanced Soldering

More to come...