The closed circuit and its multiple applications: RCA pamphlet for CCTV in commerce, industry, military, etc.
Source: Radio Corporation of America and Closed Circuit Television Department. Industrial Closed Circuit TV Equipment Catalog. Camden, N.J.: Radio Corporation of America, 1959, 10. Hagley Library
1958: View on a television monitor linked to a parking lot surveillance camera.
Source: Zworykin, V. K., E. G. Ramberg, and L. E. Flory. Television in Science and Industry. New York, 1958, p. 179.
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Control room of a full-scale test conducted in the early 1960s in Michigan to evaluate the possible uses of closed circuit in traffic surveillance
Source: National Proving Ground for Freeway Surveillance Control & Electronic Traffic Aids. Television Equipment for Traffic Surveillance, 1962. Hagley Library.
As part of the "Combat TV" project (1954), RCA worked with the U.S. Army to test CCTV on the battlefield. The cover of "Radio Age" shows RCA President David Sarnoff with Army Generals
Source: Radio Age, October 1954
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Educational CCTV: funded by the Ford Foundation, the Chelsea project was among the major educational projects of the late 1950s
Source: Closed Circuit Television: A Report of the Chelsea Project. Board of Education of the City of New York, 1962. On the Chelsea project, see Keeler 2018