ELECTRONICS: Sarnoff's Seven Years

Electronics Pioneer David Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, last week took a look into the future. At the Manhattan convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers, he predicted these developments in the next seven years:

¶Transistors, the tiny, tubeless gadgets that do the work of much larger electron tubes and last almost indefinitely, will put electronics to work in "many fields which the electron tube has not been able to serve . . . We should not be surprised to see electronic appliances find their way into the home. Air conditioners, using electronics, eliminating motors,...

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