ABSTRACT
ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Today’s computers and all of the other electronic items that govern our lives have strong origins in World War II-and women helped develop this new fi eld. The industry was only a few decades old when the war began: the fi rst use of radio waves to transmit an important message had been in 1912, during the famed sinking of the Titanic, and Radio Corporation of American (RCA) began in 1919. Commercial radio grew rapidly in the 1920s and 1930s, and RCA was developing television when the war turned virtually all production from civilian to military uses.
