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RCA Communications, which, like NBC. is one of the great companies which are members of the RCA family, has a new president. The election of Thompson H. Mitchell as president of RCA Communications, Inc.. was announced on April 1 by Brig. General David Sarnoff. chairman of the Board of RCA.
Mr. Mitchell, executive vice-president of RCA Communications since 1944, succeeds H. C. Ingles, who retired on April 1 at the age of 65. Mr. Ingles served as president for six years, having joined RCA Communications soon after his retirement in 1947 as a Major General and Chief Signal Officer, Lnited States Army.
T. H. Mitchell, newly elected president of NBC's fellow -subsidiary of RCA.
RCA Communications* main east coast transmitting station is world's largest. It occupies 10-square-mile tract at Rocky Point, L. I.
This important event for NBC's fellow-subsidiary comes just three months after NBC itself acquired a newpresident. Frank White. Although RCA Communications is several years NBC's junior, not having been formed as a separate corporation until 1929, this does not indicate that RCA was dormant in the field of communications
H. C. Ingles, who retired April 1 as president of RCA Communications.
before that. In fact, the story of RCA"s operations in the field of international wireless communications goes into the very roots and causes for being of our parent company.
Only a hundred years ago, four months might elapse during an exchange of messages between our country and England. Today, through the radiotelegraph facilities of RCA Communications, Inc., you can send an overseas telegram to London . . . and receive a reply ... in a very few minutes. Through the magic of radio communications, the people of most I foreign nations have become our neighbors in accessibility.
To go back almost 60 years, the world first heard about "wireless" telegraphy in 1894 when young Guglielmo Marconi first succeeded in send ■ ing an electrical signal 30 feet through the air. This news, however, was re
With this issue. Chime? is inaugurating a series of articles on the other companies and divisions that go to make up the Radio Corporation of America. This month we go behind the radiotelegraph towers to tell the story of RC\ Communications.
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