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MICROWAVE BEAM- ''UnOOtCAL DfcTk FILM RECORCING ^-^ OF INCOMING f P MATERIAL ' ' PROJECTION KINESCOPE AT RECEIVrNG TERMINAL SIMPLIFIED DIAGRAM OF A COMPLETE ULTRAFAX SYSTEM SHOWING THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS WIIUII MAKE POSSIBLE THE MILLION-WORDS-A-MINUTE TRANSMISSION SPEED OF THE NEWLY DEVELOPED MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION. Ultrafax: Million Words a Minute Sartioff Foresees Ultrafax Opening New Era in National and International Communications — He Urges Study Lookitig Toward the Establishment of a New National Communications Policy ULTRAFAX, a newly developed system of television communi- cations capable of transmitting and receiving written or printed mes- sages and documents at the rate of a million words a minute, was dem- onstrated publicly for the first time by the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on October 2L Brigadier General David Sarnoff, President and Chairman of the Board of RCA. declared that Ultra- fax, which splits the seconds and utilizes each fraction for high-speed transmission of intelligence, is as significant a milestone in communi- cations as was the splitting of the atom in the world of energy. Among the possible developments which General SarnofF foresaw were: 1. The exchange of international television programs achieved on a transoceanic basis. 2. A service of television and Ultrafax by which the same receiv- ing set would bring various types of publications into the home, or a newspaper for that matter, without interrupting the program being viewed. 3. A system of world-wide mili- tary communications for this coun- try, scrambled to the needs of secrecy, which with ten transmitters could carry in sixtj' seconds the peak load of message traffic cleared from the Pentagon Building in twentv-four hours during the height of World War IL 4. The establishment of great newspapers as national institutions, by instantaneous transmission and reception of complete editions into every home equipped with a tele- vision set. 5. The transmission of a full- length motion picture from a single negative in the production studio simultaneously to the screens of thousands of motion picture thea- tres throughout the country. 6. The possibility of a new radio- mail system with the vast pickup and delivery services of the Post Oflice Department. Representatives of the United States Armed Forces, Government agencies, industry and the press witnessed the introduction of this advanced communications system. RCA presented the demonstration as a "progress report" to show that the .<!ystem has reached a stage of development where plans can be [RADIO AGE 3]