Show I a af f l GAnSON'S BABSON'S tx STATEMENT TE fENT fENTa a item w abu Special to TiE TIIE EXPRESS i BABSON DISCUSSES ELECTRONICS DAnSON BAnSON PARK MASS MASS- MASSIf MASSIf If I were now In high school and had a mechanical fin ger I would learn all I could about electronics Electricity in 1894 Mr Edison had then only just Invented his incandescent bulb lamps so common today tollay There was a Gloucester Elec Co which had a dynamo In the rear of oC a machine shop It had strung wires to prominent prominent ent street corners where a carbon lamp hung to light the square This lamp consisted of two round carbon rods which were renewed each morning by the one employee of the little company I then developed a tiny bus bus- busIness mess Iness of installing electric door bells working only on Saturdays r I used two wet batteries which I located In Inthe inthe the cellar of the home There were no dry batteries or any kind of electrical appliances antes ances such as washing mach mach- machInes machines Ines or electric Irons Radio and TV had not been even dreamed of oC Wireless was Unknown The greatest Invention In my youth was Mr Ir sending of oC a message or sig sig- signa na nal without wires This we read of in our dally daily newspaper er The Tho Gloucester Breeze In 1692 the tho electric company created by Mr Edison joined with that of Mr Houston star ting the General Electric Company in an old bowling alley at Lynn Mass This com com- company party pany was then making dyna- dyna dynamos dynamos mos and other equIpment for forthe forthe the new electric light plants starting all over the United States These plants used only dl- dl direct reet electric current alternatIng alternating Ing current had not been tn in vented for Cor use in transmission sion My humpback friend Charles Steinmetz was the first to make this useful for transformers Only then did the Electrical A Age e which has since developed so tremendously grow What About the Electronic Age It If any reader will take a 12 ruler and mark off twelve magnetic electromagnetic bands he will get the secret of Elec- Elec Electronics The first known band at the top will be 2 wide and contaIn the Cosmic rays which are aro the tho very shortest these till fill the room In whIch you are arc now sitting The sec sec- second and ond band will be about an aninch aninch inch wide and comes from the sunspots They are tricky and dangerous TIle The third band consists of rays X-rays such as are arc us used d in h hospitals for taking pictures of your in- in insides insides sides The fourth band is made up of ultra violet rays The above bands the first would take about one inch each of the ruler Then we would have a band of vis able light the main band used in our present gr great t Electron Electron- teal leal Age only onty fib Inch wide The other bans bands are arc useful in the Age which we are just entering Below Delow is a band that represents the red Infrared rays which are used to help those suffering from arthritis and similar pains Then we come cometo cometo to two more important bands each about fie Inch wide Fol Following lowing these Is the radar band which is about 1 rid inches wide although we westover never stover heard of radar before World War II IL This gives us nine bands using a total of 8 fib 1 inches of oC which only Ai a inch was used before World War II Then follow the television and radio bands and a band reaching out into the unknown Some Some- Someday Someday day more will be discovered and harnessed with marvel marvel- marvelous marvelous ous possibilities in the dice elec- electronic tropic age Looking into the Future Just as radio has brought talking and television brings pictures Into your home the Electronic Age will bring heat light taste smell and perhaps memory and many other things Coal oil all gas and other natural resources will be used for more able purposes Instead of being burned up Tremendous chan are arc coming We are as backward as when I was u boy with only electric door doorbells bells Furthermore I realize that I have not mentioned the pos pos- possibilities of atomic power and the wonderful latent wealth in uranium oxide Nor grav grav- gravity Ity being studied et at New Dos Dos- Doston ton N It II This would give free Cree power to every farmer while the hydrogen of the ocean could give free power to every city I hope we will recognize that these gifts come from God Almighty to whom we should be very thankful P S A brochure outlining career opportunities In elec- elec electronics has just been published publish publish- published Electronics ed Entitled Your Chance to Shape the Future it is available from Crom Electronic Industries Assoc Association 1721 De Sales Street N W Washington 6 0 D C lit at a copy |