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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Our "Adventures in Science" guest today is George W. Bailey, Executive Secretary of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
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This organization is the professional association of almost all the engineers interested in electronics.
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Mr. Bailey is also past president, or rather recent past president, of the American Radio Relay League.
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He was the president for quite a number of years of this amateur organization.
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Mr. Bailey, we're gonna talk about the future of electronics, it's got a marvelous future, hasn't it.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
That's true, Mr. Davis.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well, what did you see in the way of the future; we have radio, we have television, we have radar, a great many things are already happening.
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I suppose that it'd been very difficult to have guessed a decade or fifteen years ago what radio or electronics was like today.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
That's true. No one fifteen years ago would've had the temerity to even hint at devices that are almost commonplace today, Mr. Davies.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
And yet, we're going to ask you to look a few years in the future, Mr. Bailey.
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What do you see around you today electronically that does give us some idea of the future?

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
With development of devices which are coming more into popular use. For instance, electronic computers.
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We all know about those marvelous machines, but they're gradually being developed for everyday use and offices and throughout business concerns, and they'll undoubtedly be a tremendous future there.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Those really do go back to what was called radio, electronics.
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Because most of their components are electron tubes and they're going to... are they going to take over some of the work in the world? Not only doing sums, but keeping track of records, do you think?

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Oh yes, undoubtedly. They're developing what they call memory tubes now that store knowledge and the whole success of electronic computers depends upon reliability.
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And it's only recently that tremendous reliability has been achieved in vacuum tubes.
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Now, for instance, there is a cable from Havana to Key West in which there are four repeaters which contain vacuum tubes which have been sunk a mile down in the Atlantic Ocean.
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And it would cost many thousands of dollars just to change one tube. And today, there have been...the device has been in operation for two years and looks as if it would go twenty years.