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

as the "Radio City of the Carib- bean." RCA International has also re- cently shipped to Cuba a 5 kw trans- mitter for Radio Salas, in Havana. This is the first 5 kw RCA equip- ment ever installed in Cuba. From the Philippines, comes an order for a 1 kw shortwave trans- mitter, and a 10 kw medium fre- quency transmitter. Installation of these equipments marks the begin- ning of the rehabilitation of station KZRH. Radio Nationale Beige is at pres- ent completing the installation of a 10 kw RCA transmitter in Brussels. Later this transmitter will be sup- plemented by a 50 kw shortwave transmitter, similar to the one erected by RCA International in Leopoldville, during the war. RCA International Division has shipped and is in process of install- ing two 7.5 kw shortwave transmit- MEMBERS OF TURKISH PRESS DEPARTMENT AT SIGNING OF CONTRACT FOR RADIO ISTANBUL. PAUL BROWN, RCA INTERNATIONAL ENGINEER IS FOURTH FROM RIGHT. ters in Lorenco IMarques, Mozam- bique, Portuguese East Africa, for the "African Announcer" station of the Radio Club of Mozambique. This is the first RCA broadcasting equipment to go to Mozambique. DR. ZWORYKIN ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT DR. VLADIMIR KOSMA ZWO- RYKIN has been elected Vice President and Technical Consultant of the RCA Laboratories Division. Dr. Zworykin, who has been Director of the Electronic Research Laboratory of the RCA Labora- tories Division, Princeton, N. J., has received international recognition for his achievements in radio, tele- vision and electronics. He has been associated with RCA for 17 years. Dr. Zworykin performed distin- guished service in World War II as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Commanding General of the United States Ai'my Air Forces, the Ordnance Advisory Committee on Guided Missiles and three important sub-committees of the National Defense Research Committee. In the course of his war work, Dr. Zworykin directed reseai'ch result- ing in the development of aircraft fire control, infrared image tubes for the famed sniperscopes and snooperscopes, television guided missiles, storage tubes and effective improvement of radar systems. As a pioneer in the development of all-electronic television as a serv- ice to the public, Dr. Zworykin in- vented the iconoscope, television's DR. V. K. ZWORYKI.W electronic "eye", and developed the kinescope, electronic picture tube of the television receiver. He directed research in perfecting the first com- mercially practical electron micro- scope, acclaimed as one of the most valuable scientific tools of the 20th Century, and originated the idea of airborne television. His pioneering work in television has won for Dr. Zworykin many awards, the latest of which was the Howard N. Potts medal of the Franklin Institute, announced on March 3, 1947. In 1934, he received the Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize from the Institute of Radio Engineers. He received the Over- seas Award of the British Institu- tion of Electrical Engineers in 1937 for a paper on the iconoscope and in 1938 he received the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Science from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1940, he was presented the Modern Pioneers Award of the American Manufacturers' Association and in 1941 he received the Rumford award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. RADIO AGE 2 9]