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Sarnoff Honored By Radio Engineers With First Founders Award Chairman of RCA Tells Engineers that Radio-Electronics Offers Unlimited Fields for New Developments — He Points to Transistors, Electronic Home Appliances, Business Machines, Tape-Recording of TV Programs, a True Amplifier of Light, and Other New Devices — Industrial Television May Surpass Present Growth of Broadcast Television B. 'RIG. General David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America, was honored as the first recipient of the Founders Award of the Institute of Radio Engineers at the annual banquet of the I. R. E. at the Waldorf-Astoria on March 25. He was cited for "outstanding contributions to the radio engi- neering profession through wise and courageous leader- ship in the planning and administration of technical de- velopments which have greatly increased the imp.ict of electronics on the public welfare." Acknowledging the Award, General Sarnoff de- livered the main address at the annual dinner of the I. R. E., which was attended by more than 1,000 engi- neers. He told them that their future in radio, elec- tronics and television is fascinating and promising, and that even their wildest dreams cannot encompass all the possibilities open to them in the years ahead. The fields of conquest in radio-electronics, he declared, are unlimited. General Sarnoff told the I.R.E. of RCA's develop- ment of a much simplified closed-circuit television sys- tem, which provides a vidicon camera attachment for a standard home television receiver. The simple attach- ment, he said, is connected as easily to a television re- ceiver as a record-player and does not affect the normal use of the receiver in any way. With the addition of this camera unit everyone of the 23,000,000 television receivers now in use becomes a potential closed-circuit system for schools, the home and other places. "Until now," he added, "industrial television has been utilized mainly by larger business and industrial organizations, but the reduction in cost brings it within reach of thousands of small businesses." General Sarnoff reported that uses are foreseen for closed-circuit TV in hotels, department stores and other business establishments. A visual intercommunication system between offices for checking papers and docu- ments, between office, factory and warehouse, can now be realized economically, he stated, and declared: RADIO AGE 3 "One of the largest fields ahead for the use of closed-circuit television is the home itself. Closed- circuit sound systems are familiar to Americans. We think nothing of voice communication between rooms in the same house, between offices in the same build- ing, between upstairs and downstairs. We are destined, I believe, to become equally familiar with closed-circuit systems of sight transmission. "When the cost of the camera attachments is suffi- ciently low to permit their use in the average home they may make the television receiver truly the control Brig. General David SarnofF (right) Board Chairman of ihe Radio Corporation of America, accepts the first Founders Av/ard of the Institute of Radio Engineers from James W. McRae, president of the Institute. The presentation took place at the annual banquet of the I.R.E. on March 25.