Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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RCA Laboratories Develop, Install First Electronic Clock A novel electronic clock is installed in the new RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N. J. This ultra-modern timepiece equipped with more than 170 electronic tubes counts the 60-ci/cle pulsations of electric current, and indicates that count in terms of seconds, minutes and hours hi/ nutans of lights. It has no moving parts, no motors, wheels, main spring or hands. Scientists sat/ the electronic princij)les involved may form the basis of the household clock of the future. Blinking lights "tick off" the seconds on the line shown from 1 to 60, while other lights denote the minutes and hours. Pictured here with the clock is Dr. V. K. Zwon/kin. Associate Director of RCA Laboratories, who with his staQ developed it. RCAI TRAINING NAVY. MARINE CORPS MEN Graduates of School Already On Duty With Fleet: Total Institutes' Eiirollment 2.100. WITH GRADUATES already on duty as rated radio men with the United States Fleet, the RCA Insti- tutes' Na\"v School reports a current enrollment of more than 800 enlisted personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps in its student body. Present schedules call for the acceptance of 240 additional enlisted men for train- ing each month. A new record registration occmred with the opening of the regular fall term of RCA Institutes at V'arick Street, New York, on September 8. More than 700 new students were enrolled, rais- ing the total number in attendance to more than 1,300. Institutes officials called attention to the significant fact that registrations include a substantial number of women. Analysing the greatly increased in- terest in the technical courses offered bv the Institutes, the management breaks down the enrollment as follows; Young men who expect to enter the armed forces and who wish to prepare themsehes for technical assignments; voung men who feel that radio training may help them attain commission rank; men who have had no particular trade, and now feel that there is a good chance to get a start in the radio in- dustr\'; men who are not eligible for military service for physical or other reasons, but who wish to do their part in the war effort by \\orking at radio; and both men and women who feel that a knowledge of radio code and radio mechanics will help them render important civilian defense service. RADIO AGE 29