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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1924.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
Simple Sets Are Sußlcient.
The complicated "ultra-super- The organisors expect the com- super" rocoivor is only a fad, says ing experiments to be as highly Frofossor Morecroft of the depart successful as was the now historie radio concort Columbia University.
which was singed at Station WOR "Most of those new sots you' February 23rd, 1923. On that
ont of olectrical onginooring at
road about to-day are only adapta-
trans- Allantle
occasion, Mion Edith Bennoti, the
tions and complications of the noted American soprano, sang a truck-chassis, three or four fundamental otrouits complete recital in French, Italiau
in radio engineering," he points and English which was heard out. "Their only good is in the clearly in 102 different countries achievement of long distance roby a collectivo audience of ovari caption, and in bringing out a far 5,000,000 people.
station through a loud speaker, The organisors have again en- "But when broadcasting bo-gugod Miss Bonnott, who bas localized, u small, simple beon avolaimed the world's finest
and much cheaper and easier to Radio World's Fair experimentu. Bus.control."
She will give special programines Morocroft is quite confident in on the opening and closing days also his prediction of localized broad of the exposition, and her lovely custing. It will come about, he voice will again thrill the inosic says, by a gradual diminution of loving listonors-in of the univorso. the number of stations now! Hongkong long-range listonoгy- broadcasting and contralization in please note.
The S.S."Glensheil arriving on the 24th. July,ne-tubo set will be just as good, radio singer, to participate in the will also bring one 24-passenger British-built English pattern, complete with body and equipped with pneumatic tyres.
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"Then we shall get botter broadcasting," ho predicts. ." Tho contralization of stations may ultimatoly Mean government control, with one outstanding! station sonding out a programme | to all the others, from which local fans will receive thom.
SPEED OF RADIO.
Experts Who Disagree.
From both ends of the. United **Locul receiving sots undorj States come sounds of à clash such, conditions coed to be con-over the spood of the radiu structed for reception of about wave, It started with the an.] 100 miles on the average. Thoynouncement from San Francisco can't help but make them simpler that radio waves are slower thạn and cheaper, when the sume pro-light wGYOB It was made by grammes will be sent out all over Captain T. J. J. Seo, professor of the country ut the samo time.mathematies in the U. S. navy,; There will be no more need for government astronomer at the getting DX.
Mare Island navy yard and Thore's
an opportunity for authority on the other theory. wired wireless, Morecroft adde.
Aluost immediately comes the
But it will be more limited than donial by John V. L. Hogan, one the localized form of broadcast-of the foremost radio authorities lug. bo predicts.
in the country. From his office
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An accordeion-ploated paper done loud speaker, iristend of the horn type. It is the invention of a French engineer":
"Wirod radio probably is com-jin Ngw York'hu sonds out the ing, but i can sou only a limited į declaration that to think of radio use for it. Where there is on waves travelling at a lower spood underground network of electric than that of light is absurd. wires, as in Now York, for instance, wired radio may be good for about a mile.".
Morocroft is one of the fow experimentors who does not patent his inventions.
Captain 800 concluded that thoj apood of radio was 165,000 milles a second after he had conducted some positive tests.
tho
But, says Mr. Hogan, "the "Whatever I learn and write spood of light was dotormined about, I publish," ho oxplains.
accurately by several scientific It's just one of the details of Investigators many years ago.
of longer spood electrical anginooring to him. As and profossor of electrical engineer ofootor-magnetle wavos, in which ing at Columbia he can claim category the radio waves fall, creation of most radio onginoors has been conceded by loading A ghastly tragedy resulting in of today. Many now hoattered authorities to be the same. In fact, the death of 18 mon occurred in through various onginooring light waves are generally under- tha Birla Cotton Mills at Delhi, laboratories wore airstudents stood to be nothing more nor loss carly this month.
But fundamentally, ho insists, than exceedingly high-frequency BOLTS, NUTS, RIVETS, DOG SPIKES, FORGINGS, Etc., tored a boiler to clean it for specializing in radio: Which is all electro-magnetic waves, who Sorenteon factory workers on-they are electrical engineers electrical vibrations in space, and
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Inspection, while an adjoining the way he has of offoring this ther of high or low frequency, have boon shown by analysju boiler was kept working. Sud advice to radio fane
donly a steam pipe burst and fell "Study the elements of electric and experiment to have the same against the boiler in which the ity. If you want to learn about spood.
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outflow of stoum rüshad` · in:] through the opening by which
RETURN.”
Lieut-Col. Jarzott, the motorist
the men had entered. Before the RADIO WORLD'S FAIR. MISSING COLONEL'S DRAMATIC stdam could be eut off or relief arrived all 17 men wore mangled and scalded corpsos,, and could hardly be identified.
The Jomadar supervising the work outside the boiler was also
Broadcasting Across The" who had been missing from his
Pacific/
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so badly scalded that he died soonFair to be held at Madison Square nutnoy A Prosa representative
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