Round About Listening.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926.
New Ship, But Old Radio.
Artists Record Footloose"
STEEL CURTAIN
How William Metcalfe, blind organist, accompanied. Mrs. Carl Rupp without seeing or hearing her directly.
Cleveland: Froof of the light- ing speed of radio was demons- tood at the Cleveland Audi- torium, here, during, an organ rocital broadcast, by William Metcalf, famous blind organist i and composer, through bitma WTAM?
While the voica of the sinor; went into the microphone at the auditorium, through the WTAM aerial six miles away and back to a receiving set in the auditorium, Motoalf sat at the console there accompanying the singer and lis- toning to her voice by radio,
A steol curtain separatod, Motcalf and Mrs. Carl Rupp, soprano, as sho sang hor hus- band's song, "Lovely Lady," and Metcalf played it on the Metcalf was - at the organ. console beneath the auditorium floor at the front of the stage. Mrs. Rupp was on the stage, 60: foot fromhim,unseon and unheard.
Mrs. Rupp heard the organ notes as she sang. But Metcalf, aviator's helmet on his head with earphones set into it, heard her and his organ only through rocep- tion from WTAM.
The U. S. S. Relief (upper view) has one of the best hos pital organizations in the country, yet its radio equipment (lower photo) is considered almost obsolete,
"Footloose," that tuneful melody by Carl Rupp which
has been widely heralded in connection with "May Seymour (Footloose)" has been recorded on QR, S. rolls. Max Kor- tlander, standing, and Victor Ardon, recording artists, say it. is a "wow" of a song,
The Wonders Inside Your Radio
WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW THEY GET THERE
Mahogany, Aluminum. Steel, Copper Even Gold, Are Required to Bring You Music Off
the Air.
Crasb of the home rum King's bat against the ball, the voice of the President of the United States reports of s'dire disaster,
dance
Away are
orchestra's cheery musical, these things from far brought into our homes by radia
From
moraing when
early
To
Former Up-to-date listens the live stock market's quotations until late at night, when Mr. Long Distance Pan tries to pick up
program. team England, radia plays an important part in Amer Ho life. Yet, as with many an other duddenly popstar Invention
little
has teen heard of ite
but
history.
Unly a few years ago the feat of making wood, metal and wires. nuli messages from the air w*?
e than a hobby of scien it has developed into one OBES, but it of the principal factors of Ameri
hardly m
WORKERS ASSEMBLING
CONDENSERS
ca's electrical industry. More than| The oven's temperature, 300 de- 3,000,000 receiving sets have been grees Fahrenheit, and hydro-elee. made in the United States during tric pressure of 3,000 pounds to a the last five years, the federal square inch, melts the "Bear" to s Census Bureau reports.
...) paste. Then the pressure is re- leased and the mould is lifted out and placed to "cold press," ro unding one of Mother's placing
Largest Radio Factory
Of the 400 radio factories in the United States, the largest in the
new Atwater Kens niast at Phills bot cookies et an open window will detpbis. where on twelve acres of to cool. Here the paste is allowed noor space workers and machines to karden,
tura out receiving, sets and radio
Having completed the process by removing knobs from their cunë.
En of can vistarinis the baker turns" his base of com
the Brat step toward producing pressed air into the pan and blows
radios and, although single re
it
clean
and bright for the next
baking cofver and radio speaker can be
In the next sisia) a workman 'is small table, a train placed on
.01. freight cars three entles long taking baked dials from pans. would be needed to bold the ma- They like another wristy of bogang, steel, aluminum, brasa. Mother's cakes, are to be frosted. is white enamel copper and other trade materials The frosting ased by this factory for a year's which girls at a nearby table rob of radio sets and speakers into the engraved figures around
depo ra.materials Into the dial's edgen.
MOLDING 'The VIALS.
Bortion-the carposter shop.
RADIO SPEAKER!. ARE RAMMED INTO SHAPE FROM FLAT PECES
OF STEEL
STARTING To
"ASSEMBLE A SET
A TASK DONE
ENTIRELY BY GIRLS"
They are not near
ISTEAD OF BROSKED
ON CABINETS.
MOVING
BELT OF
SPAPER SMOKITUNG THE CARNGIS
ATWATER KENT, ACTIVE IN THE PLANT, LIKES TO
OBSERVE FINAL TESTS
Įtanka, ruch se wire winding. better How Radios Are Made.
Sawing op ↳ 125.000 gile of lum than men, supervisors say, so iney. Pour rams, striking with the barvery plank of solid Mexico constitute one-third of the factory's **Carco of three tons of falling mahogany-is the sight that, drat employe
bricks, pound out the shapely bell attracte, the visitor to the carpenter "Bair-cuisine," literally, describes Antebed apparatus is the second Just as Mother's cookies, every from a dat piece of steel. With shop Machine-driven, tools and the some fobe done by the girls. Those
Inte step in radio making, co. from once to a while are brand, so a one blow, the first ram hatters Carpentering planke
who polish screws on lathes, for The boards for cabinet lids, bottoms and instance, have their bobbed freases the storerooms the visitor steps mob or dial occasionally comes hollow in the flat steel. into su adjoining shop where from the oven too brows, or pot second ram hammers smaller sides: planing the boards; drilling pulled as erect a porcupine quills diag and rheostat knobs are teine brown enough, or with a sebe, hollow inside the first. The third holes and oven sandpapering them by electele, energy that the power
There knobs are notiazide by in- makes an even smaller inside the
belts, create molded.
** Guld i Uyed. Watching the molding of those spectors and so matter bow slight second. Finally the fourth drives
Beal gold visame in the nery enough the belts to be in danger, little round knobs recalls after the defect, they are destroyed at in its dent
the gold plating aber and several say they like to have pection
their bair stand. ..on end, declaring noons when Mother used to take the end of each day,
The Lall, of course, is badly con- Beveral wundred copper cap cakes for approaching picnics. The recipe for this peculiar torted by the punches, but a menetele gold it makes whole rowniez atory (teries and sends it on. At the third change it. A switch at the tester's groop wiring onder the set is hand changes"reception from the Baking the Dais
our which is aired in chanical presser Irons out all its bath. They slide about in a wirs more glorious.
crenses in a few minutes,
basket as it swings through the Girls put the set-together. They added: at the fourth, dials and standard set to the newly. com- The knots are made out of of Jersey plante la: a brown four called bakelite. The Te one portion of carbode
Between the big pooch's growls, solution. Six bare of pare 84 stand on both sides of a moving rheostat knobs, so that at the end pleted set, which must reproduce baker pours it into seven little add a portion of formaldehyde the times the whirring noise of karat gold hang at one side of the belt with finished parts within of the belt there arrives an asas clearly as the standard. The cape to a alloy stool pan, or dold Season with asbestos and wood many smaller machines coms levat and supply the valuable cover hand's reach. At the head of the sembled tadio set, ready for inspec reason for such thorough method Just as Mother used to press flour. Stir well.*
Making twelve-foot-long brass pipes in which the solution transfers to belt single pieces of steel the tion and deposit in a cabinet.
front panels are placed.
Best Testing. raisin 'stop' each dab of dough, be i Each mold has to be tem into Inch and a quarter tube-sock the plates.
While man debe powerful ma Taking, a panel, one giri attaches
The standard set on aach toster's "places in the center of each epp of pared most carefully to endure atome cutting condenser platen
flour amali brass tube, which hear and pressure directed out of alizon strips some clip chines on one side of the factory, condensers, transformers and tube eventually will farten the krobu wenly-four hours a day by that wing washers from ribbons of steel on the other side,,zitis wind wire sockets on it.and starts it down the table has been brought as sent por Its shaft. Then be covere tergorous team of oakers, woparently racing to produce thinner than buman hair, into coc. belt. Upon reaching the second fection 41 the several zoginoer frdough" with the mold's top, wuns intended by Henry Ring, Har- the restent coumber of parts to go dabar and tradeformer colla, in group of wiris, it is lifted from the through whose hande It must one peta în in an oven which is talrevard_football" and lacrosse per into the handsome mahogany cabi-sulate wires and polish complated bait by one of them, who adds can make it to shen padlocked
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nete being made in the adjoining parts. Women perform she delicate cables for loud speaker and, bat-that nothing be touched testing tablet, of 98
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or testing. expert say, is that receiving conditions vary wod so do batteries but the now set must so as well as the standard under all conditions. The saying about the twelve-sere plant is that if one fails to and is, Atwater Bent in his oties. Look for him first at the
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