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SCIENCE AT NEW ALTITUDES Inventions Open New Vistas and Widen Man's Communication Range Beyond the Surface of Our Planet, Brig. General SarnoflE Tells Scientists at Cincinnati Meeting. Address delivered by Brigadier General David Sarnoff, President, Radio Corporation of America, at Cincinnati Technical and Scientific Societies Council, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 11, 1947. TODAY is the 100th Anniver- sary of the birth of Thomas A. Edison. It is a special privilege and a great pleasure to be with you on this day for it was Ohio that gave Edison to the world. It is particularly fitting that the Cincinnati Technical and Scientific Societies Council should observe the great inventor's birth. With his Centennial as a keynote, this day in Ohio history inspires us to look ahead and to survey the great forces of science which mankind now com- mands as a result of pioneering in- stituted by Edison. Exploration and discovery are woven through the pattern of Ohio's history. First the Indian tribes ex- plored and inhabited its fertile ex- panse. Later—in the 17th Century —came the first French and English traders. As smoke signals and foot- runners were their only "lines of contact", they were lost to the world as far as communication was con- cerned. In our own times wireless had not been in existence long, before Ohio cities felt the beat of electro- magnetic pulses in earphones at Cleveland, Toledo and Ashtabula, as ships on Lake Erie first began to spark their invisible messages to the shore. With the advent of broadcasting, Ohio quickly took to the air. It became an important center of radio as the unseen waves carried words and music over the neighboring communities of Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Cincinnati, with its powerful trans- mitter radiated the name and fame of Ohio to nationwide listeners. Today there are 37 broadcasting stations in Ohio, and 33 of them are linked in coast-to-coast net- works. Ohio is called the mother of Presidents. In Canton, McKinley introduced "front porch campaigii- ing" in 1896, but his voice could not carry beyond his lawn. At that time there was no broadcasting. Now from any porch or portico, the presidential candidate can address the entire electorate. Before many years pass the entire country will see him by television. THE MODERN STRUCTURE OF RADIO IS BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION WHICH EDISON HELPED TO ERECT. President William Howard Taft, a native son of Ohio, approved and signed the Communications Act of 1912, the first law to recognize the importance of radio communication in the United States. Ohio was the first State from which a Republican National Con- vention was broadcast. That was in 1924 when Calvin Coolidge was nominated at Cleveland. The won- der of that day was that twelve States, as far west as Kansas City, were linked into a network! Presi- dent Warren G. Harding, the first Chief Executive to broadcast while in office, was born in Ohio. So we .see that the history of radio, in its service to the Nation and its peo- ple, is not only linked with this State through science, but also through its social and political life. All these have had an important in- fluence on the growth of America. RADIO AGE 3]