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

RCA Review Ends 2nd Year Magazine Regains Pre-War Standing in Electronic Field, Supplemented by Publication of Important Books on FM, Television, and Patent Procedure IN the two years that have passed since the RCA Review Depart- ment was established as a part of the RCA Laboi-atories Division, Princeton, N. J., the publication has regained the position it held before World War II as a widely accepted and authoritative technical journal of radio and electronics research and engineering. In addition, the department has expanded its activ- ities to include the publication and distribution of volumes on Tele- vision, FM, Patent Procedure and several indexes. Publication of the Review was suspended in 1942 when distribution of technical informa- tion was restricted by wartime se- curity regulations. The basic purpose of the RCA Re- view is in line with the policy of the Radio Corporation of America, for, since its formation in 1919, the Cor- poration has supported the principle that research and engineering knowledge and techniques must be shared if their full worth and use- fulness are to be eventually realized. Furthermore, the establishment by RCA of a "technical publishing com- pany" within its own ranks is an extension of the active support which has been given to professional societies and their technical jour- nals. RCA Review Started in 1936 When it was fir.'^t established, twelve years ago, RCA Review was published by RCA Institutes Tech- nical Press as one of the activities of RCA Institutes, Inc., the oldest radio and electronics school in the country. From 1936 until publica- tion ceased temporarily in 1942, twenty-four issues of the journal had appeared. Papers in these six annual volumes were written by RCA scientists, engineers and ex- ecutives and covered such subjects as television, broadcasting, electron tubes, communications, acoustics, antennas, electron optics, facsimile. PUBLICATIONS OF THE RCA REVIEW DEPARTMENT SINCE ITS FORMATION IN 1946. wave propagation, measurements and tests, circuits and components, and special equipment, together with papers in physics, mathe- matics, chemistry and other fields which relate closely to radio and electronics. In the same pre-war period, four volumes of the RCA Technical Book Series also were published. These were: Television, YoluraQs I (1936) and II (1937) ; Radio Facsimile, Volume I (1938) and Radio at Ultra- high Frequencies, Volume I (1940). These books, for the most part, con- sisted of reprints of papers pub- lished in various technical journals, and the compilations met with wide acceptance as valuable reference works. Activities Moved to Princeton In 1945, the activities of RCA Review were shifted to Princeton. George M. K. Baker (Lt. Comdr., U.S.N. (Ret.) was appointed Man- ager of the new department and Editor of RCA Review. In March 1946, the first post-war issue was published. Within a short time, the acquisition of a paid subscription list double that of pre-war years testified tb the fact that the Review had resumed its status as one of the leading technical journals, being ex- tensively referenced, abstracted and quoted by indexing services and other technical journals. Early in 1947, the first two post- war volumes of the RCA Technical Book Series were available^TeZe- vision, Volume III (covering the period of development from 1938 to 1941) and Volume IV (1942-1946). The third volume in this Book Series — Frequency Modulation, Volume I (1936-1947)—has just appeared, and additional volumes are already in the formative stage. In the fall of 1947, the RCA Re- view Department inaugurated a new RCA Engineering Book Series to provide material less technical than that contained in the Technical Books. Subjects of the Engineering Books are to be selected on the basis of interest and value to scientists and engineers. The first volume— Patent Notes For Engineers, —writ- ten by C. D. Tuska, Director of the RCA Patent Department, already [24 RADIO AGE] i8f.