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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
9/13/50
STANDARDIZATION CITED AS FOUNDATION FOR RADIO, TV PROGRESS
A report on engineering standardization In the radio Industry which began in 1913 and is today the basis of outstanding advances in the electronic art, including television, radar, radio, electronic computing and other complex electronic devices was pre¬ sented to the West Coast Convention of the Institute of Radio Engi¬ neers at Long Beach, California today (Wed., Sept. 13) by Virgil M. G-raham, Director of Technical Relations for Sylvania Electric Pro¬ ducts, Inc., and Associate Director of the Engineering Department of the Radio-Television Manufacturers' Association.
"Early radio standardization", G-raham said, "stemmed from the first preliminary report of the Committee on Standardization of the Institute of Radio Engineers dated September 10, 1913* This report contained definitions of terms, tests and symbols which are of interest to the radio industry and the Institute today.
"The first effort to establish the manufacturing type of standards began about 1923 by the Associated Manufacturers of Elec¬ trical Supplies then concerned particularly with appliance type of electrical equipment. Activity of AMES committees continued until mid-1926 when their organization combined with the Electric Power Club, concerned with heavy power equipment to form the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association. Radio standardization was continued by NEMA's Radio Division which published handbooks on standardization during 1927 and 1928.
"In 1929 the rapidly growing Radio Manufacturers' Associa¬ tion, which had been established in 1923, set up the first RMA Engineering Committee with a Standards Section. At this time RMA standardization procedure followed closely that established by NEMA. Material was proposed by RMA engineering subcommittees, reviewed by the general Standards Committee and approved proposals were then submitted to RMA membership for letter ballot providing one vote for each member company. If the ballot was not returned within a stated time it was counted as affirmative. A majority of 75%> affirmative votes was required for adoption.
"Occasions when 75% of the ballots were not returned were not unusual. The Xireakness of the procedure soon became apparent.
In 193^ a survey of other manufacturing standardization systems indi¬ cated that procedure used by the Society of Automotive Engineers was more desirable. Therefore, a modified SAE procedure was adopted by RMA, Proposals are circulated for comments which a G-eneral Stand¬ ards Committee judges for the industry. This procedure permits con¬ sideration of valid objection^ and provides a very democratic stand¬ ardization system.
"During the early 1930's RMA engineering was concerned principally with component standardization. Therefore subcommittees were formed out of the components committee to specialize in stand¬ ards for resistors, capacitors and other components. L. C. F. Horle, a consulting engineer in New York, organized these component stand¬ ardization committees and also established the RMA Data Bureau.
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