Longtime TV Engineer Harvey Caplan Dies At 82

Harvey Caplan, a television engineering pioneer with a 50-year career, died Feb. 6 in Starkville, Miss., of cancer. He was 82.

His career began as a design engineer and design group manager in the aerospace industry. He then moved into the television broadcast industry in 1960 at CBS Laboratories where his design accomplishments included the Lunar Orbitor Program, the DRIPS Program, the Linotron System, the Vidifont and various other broadcast engineering projects.

Caplan’s television broadcast marketing, sales and management career included stints at CBS, Thomson Broadcast, Ikegami, Chyron and J A Taylor & Associates. Most recently, he was the manager of The Links at Starkville, enjoying his lifelong passion for golf.

He is survived by his wife, Twanna T. Caplan and two children.