Preliminary report of the Committee on Standardization of the Institute of Radio Engineers Inc. : Definitions of terms, graphical and literal symbols.

The Committee on Standardization of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) was appointed by the Past-President of the Institute, Mr. Robert H. Marriott, and continued by President Greenleaf W. Pickard, for the express purpose of studying the terms and symbols used in the art, selecting and defining the suitable terms, and eliminating the remainder. Its further functions are to develop, and make public, standard methods of testing and rating radio apparatus, and to consider such further matters as would naturally fall within the scope of a Committee on Standardization. As a result of more than fifty meetings and discussions, the Committee presents to the IRE members and others interested the following definitions and symbols for consideration.