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■ Radio Corporation of America Ranks Twenty-Fifth I ; Among U.S. Companies; Now Operates 40 Plantslt;* The Radio Corporation of lite, NASA’s Ranger spacecraft »' America, founded in 1919, is one s of the foremost companies ins the world in electronics and an r important factor in Ohio's in 1 dustrial complex. The company, has an annual business volume e approaching $18 billion, and is the 25th largest company in the 1 United States. It has 167,000 f- stockholders and 88,000 em i- ployees, and its divisions and ° subsidiaries operate 28 manu-►- facturing plants in the United States and 12 in foreign coun f tries.*' RCA’s activities comprise ^ world-wide radiotelegraph and ^ radiophoto networks, radio and ^ television broadcasting, homej instruments. electric components, electronic data processing, industrial communications, defense and space electronics, servicing of electronic equipment. and electronic research and engineering development e Space and Defensei RCA is playing an increasing-i, ly important role in the explor-i at ion of space as evidenced by- scheduled delivery in 1962 of more than a score of majors space packages The company i has e i t h e i prime or major i- subsystem responsibilities for !, such p r o je c t s as The Na-i tional Aeronautics and Space p Administration’s (NASA) high-i ly successful Tiros weather sat-s ellites and their associated ground systems; the Air Force’s- Satellite Inspector Program to 1 seek out and identify other sat-? ellites in orbit; NASA’s Project 1 Relay experimental satellite to 1 test the feasibility of trans-r oceanic telephone, telegraph,? and television communications• using an active repeater satel-to explore the moon; the Nimbus second-generation weather, satellites and the SERT vehi cle, to carry experimental electric propulsion devices for suborbital flight testsAmong RCA’s key military ac tivities are: prime contractoror the Ballistic Missile Early • Warning System (BMEWS); the development of methods for evaluating performance of missile weapons in flight; produc tion of guidance equipment for the Bomarc Missile; communi cations systems for Projects Mercury and DynaSoar; devel opment, design and production of the Communications system for the Command and Information Networks of Minuteman; development of a broad microelectronics program for the U. S. Army Signal Corps; sev eral laser programs for the military services; numerous military communication systems. and a family of computers for military applications;! further development of automat ed ground-air ground commu nications; the designing, manufacturing. and installation of the equipment for the five switching centers of the Air Force’s COMLOGNET. design ed as the world’s fastest and most extensive message and circuit switching system, and development of special communications systems for the Navy’s Polaris submarine programHome EntertainmentRCA has been a leader in the home entertainment industry since the early 1920’s when it first began selling radio sets. It was the first to establish aradio broadcasting network (the National Broadcasting Company in 1926 i. the first to bring the radio and phonograph into combined service (The “Victrola” phonograph combination m 1929; the first to introduce television to the Amer can public (black-and-white in 1939 and compatible color in 1954). Its RCA Victor records, high fidelity and stereophonic instruments, as well as its tape recorder products, are well-known in the U.S. and world marketsRCA pioneered and devel-veloped color television. Brought into production by RCA only eight years ago, the color TV industry now has achieved an annual going rate of more than $200 million.Components RCA produces electron tubes, transistors, solid - state circuit devices and the materials from which they are made for the computer, home instrument, and military markets Breakthroughs by the Electron Tube Division and the Semicon ductor and Materials Division have made possible new and higher standards for a wide range of equipment. These include the thimble-size Nuvistor, which is a high-efficiency electron tube employing a unique ceramic and metal construction; the solid-ceramic circuit, which is capable of performing1 all circuit functions from amplification to computer switching; and the high-efficiency gallium arsenide solar cells and varactor diodes for satellite and microwave functionsData Processing Behind RCA’s drive in dataprocessing is an extensive and continuing program of research and development enlist inf the talents of some 2,000 scientists and engineers throughout the . country.RCA’s basic line of data processing systems today consists of:The RCA 301—a versatile and compact computer with scientific capabilities, widely accepted in industry, government and education; andThe RCA 501—a general pur pose electronic data processing system that has proven its re-, liability by a sustained record of performance for a wide variety of usersRCA is now commencing delivery of the RCA 601. a large ultra high speed computer system that is capable of handling complex problems of the larg est corporations as well asBy the end of 1962. over 250 RCA electronic data processing Iftl— had been installed for business and government users both within the United States and abroad.Besides its commercial sales and rental activities, RCA operates five electronic data-proc-essing centers across the na tion — in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington. DC, and Cherry Hill, N.J.1 These centers provide comprehensive services to the busi ness, industrial, and financial communities in their areas.In addition to its manufacture of complete systems, RCA also is a producer of electronic com ponents for the substantial and growing electronic data processing industry across the na tion.
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1963
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