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®K£WS c^P Mayflower II . . . During the fifty-three-day Atlantic crossing of the Mayflower II, RCA Communications' marine station WCC at Chatham, Mass., maintained daily radiotelegraph contact with the vessel. Installation of a radio transmitter and receiver were among the few de- partures from the original ship's fur- nishings. Near the mid-Atlantic, a live voice-broadcast on progress of the May- flower II was picked up by the Program Transmission Service of RCA Com- munications, Inc. This exclusive report was subsequently rebroadcast on NBC's "Monitor" show. Batty Translation . . . Bob Considine reported on an NBC- TV show recently about an incident in which his writings were translated into Japanese. His story concerned the final game of last year's World Series when the New York Yankees exploded for nine runs. "I wrote a one-word lead," Bob recalled. "It said 'Murder — ex- clamation point.' The story was radioed to Tokyo and the boys in the com- posing room of the paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, couldn't find any Japanese character that quite expressed what I was trying to say. So the next day my story of the final game started out with a grouping of Japanese char- acters which translated into: 'Kill all the people.' " No More Absenteeism . . . Desk absenteeism, the bane of busi- ness efficiency, has been largely elim- inated at the Kurth Malting Co., Mil- waukee, since the installation of an RCA "Auto Dial" intercommunication system in the twelve buildings of the firm. This plant-wide system uses fifty-eight "Auto Dial" phones and pag- ing units. It enables chemical, process- ing, and production people to get timely reports on processing factors, without delay, and without leaving their desks. "Teller Vision" . . . Banking by "Teller Vision" — a sys- tem developed by RCA for TV trans- mission of signatures and account information from centralized book- keeping departments to remote drive- in windows — is speeding depositor service at several more banks. Bankers find that the favorable reaction of de- positors to the speed, convenience, and accuracy made possible with RCA "Teller Vision" at both inside and drive-in banking windows more than justifies the cost of installation. Thru the "Heat Barrier" . . . New materials and techniques prom- ise to push back the "heat barrier" that now limits the performance of transistors and related electronic de- vices. Dr. Dietrich Jenny of RCA's David Sarnoff Research Center says experimental use of new compound semiconductors in place of germanium or silicon has led to the development of laboratory types of transistors and diodes that may operate at tempera- tures as high as S50 degrees Fahrenheit. This is nearly 300 degrees hotter than the maximum for present types. Electric Wrist Watch . . . An electric wrist watch that re- charges its own battery has been in- vented by Loren F. Jones, manager of RCA's business machine marketing de- partment at Camden, N. J. His newly patented watch is run by an electric motor, powered by a tiny storage bat- tery. The wearer's random wrist move- ments wind a small spring. The spring, when released from time to time, sends surges of current through the battery. According to the inventor, the battery ought to last for a number of years. 32 RADIO AGE