only search this site

Looking for books on the World's Fair?

Amazon.com
Use this Amazon link
to get started
.



The Communication & Business Zone (Zone 4)
1939 New York World's Fair

R.C.A. - Radio Corporation of America


Designers: Skidmore & Owings


A new form of radio transmitting called FM was demonstrated to the public for the first time in the RCA building. The exhibit was lit with the new fluorescent lighting and a new invention, called the facsimile (FAX) machine transmitted 8-inch by 12-inch newspaper pages at a rate of eighteen minutes per page.

A television made from Dupont's new material, Lucite, was in the lobby. The walk-through exhibit of the yacht was in a garden in the rear of the RCA pavilion.


Radio Corporation of America
Radio Corporation of America - photo 196

RCA displayed a 53-foot Elco motor yacht to demonstrate the latest in marine safety and communications. The walk-through exhibit of the yacht was in a garden in the rear of the RCA pavilion.


Radiomarine Corp of America
Radiomarine Corp of America - photo 052