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RADIO TOPICS

BEAM WIRELESS.

Future in the World Considered.

CHAINS OF NEW STATIONS.

TELEVISION.

BRITAIN LEADING IN THE RACE.

be established. Stations are позд being bullt to put Australia and Canada into direct communication with each other. Under its wire- leas concession from the Egyptian Government the Marconi Company com. will erect Beam stations for

A SCOTSMAN'S INVENTIONS. munication with India and England, It looks as if Egypt may become age

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wireless Clapham Junction. There Mr. John L. Baird had succeeded in transmitting by wireless from London to Glasgow, a distance of 138 miles, the moving face and gure of a speaker, and at the same, time recording on a loud-speaker | the sound of his voice..

Mr. Baird's experts will leave for

was keen competition between the Eastern Telegraph Company and At one stage in the development Marcant for the Egyptian conces of wireless amateurs were restrict-sion, which included the taking over ed to practising with wave lengths of the obsolete Post Office station of 300 metres or under, which was

near Cairo, erected under the form- then deemed to be the non-com-er Empire scheme, for communicat mercial aphere for transmission,

Donald, ing with Leafield. With stations in writes Sir Robert

the north and south of Africa and "Daily Tele- is obviously necessary graph." Experiments soon proved that the circuit should be enlarged America to carry out trans-Atlantic that, within limits, the shorter the and that wireless communications tests. Thus Mr. Baird will ohal- wave length the longer were the should be established between all longe the Americans on their own distances which could be covered the British possessions in Africa. ground. Senatore Marconi, who had been ex- The Portuguese Government is Up till the time of the London- perimenting during and immediate ahead of us in having only a few Glasgow test the record was held y after the war, by his long and weeks ago inaugurated a wireless by the American Telegraph Co., patient demonstrations placed short service between Lisbon and its whose

officials last April wave transmission on a practical African colonies. Other scattered "televisioned" the U.S. Secretary and commercial basis. One might territories within the British Em- for Commerce (Mr. Hoover) from say that the position is now replre are being linked up with

Baird appears to fulfil the popu- lar iden, of an inventor. A Scots- man, he preserved great secrecy about essential parts of his televi

On

versed, and that, the non-commer-less The West Ander, formerly Washington to New York, a little cial wireless is that which uses isolated, are now united by cables over 200 miles. Mr. Hoover's voice long waves. It is doubtful whe- and wireless, all under British con- was heard as well. ther more stations of the Rugbytrol. The network is being extend- This transmission was effected. type will be erected except for uni-ed by new stations linking up Ber- by wire, however, whereas that of versal broadcasting on non muda and Jamaica. We may look Baird was carried out by wireless. commercial basis. It looks as If

forward in the early future to the the future lay with the Beam. The adoption of cheap wireless as the success of the short wave direc-medium for bridging over the vast tional, or Beam, has been unexpect-spaces within the Empire, as in the ed by wireless experts outside this Continent of India, in Australia, sion system although he frequently country, who questioned Senatore and in the Canadian North-West. Marconi's optimism and took a

Simultaneously with the erection gives public demonstrations. sceptical view of his experiments. on behalf of the British Govern- eno ocension representatives of a He and his colleagues may now feel ment of stations in England for prominent British scientific body proud of their triumph, os Beum

attended his laboratory in London communicating with South Africa, stations are springing up all over India, Australin, the Marconi Com- to witness a demonstration, and the world, some of them being built pany is erecting a large multiple were amazed to find that parts of on behalf of companies which a few Beam centre at Dorchester, which his apparatus consisted of biscuit years ago had no faith in the sys will include seven transmitting stains, bits of wire, and even string tem. If the Beam stations erected tions for communication with the ln appearance it was crude, but it for the Post Office by the Marconi United States, Brazil, Buenos Aires, worked, Company had failed, the result

Egypt, the Far East, and elsc would have been disastrous for that where. It is a further tribute to corporation. As it is. it seems the success of the Beam that the if the Beam were to bring it re- big Radio Corporation of America newed prosperity.

has given the Marconi Company an order to install a Beam station in the United States on its behalf.

Beam stations are being adopted to a large extent under the conces sion obtained by the Marconi Com- pany from the Portuguese Govern ment for connecting up Europe with the Portuguese possessions.

For these reasons his advance chain of stations has been complet- ed; two Beam stations at Lisbon has been slow, but it is evident that A year ago will communicate with Beam sta- he has now succeeded. tions in the Portuguese colonies his invention was taken over com- communicating with Mozambique mercially by a firm called Tele- and Loanda. There will also be vision, Ltd. stations ut Madeira, the Azores, and

Empire Chain,

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Played Lone Hand.

One reason for the unbusiness-like appearance of his instruments was that Baird preferred to make the different parts himself rather than to get others to do so. When he came across a problem, electrica), optical, or algebraical, the solution of which was necessary to his pro- gress, he employed no expert, but studied the subject himself.

As far as the British Empire. is concerned, we are within sight of the completion of the major Empire chain. The Canadian Beam service is now carrying about 140,000 words per week. The Australian service is living up to its early promise, but it must not be assumed that these two or other stations are likely to work at fullest capacity greatest efficiency during the first few months of operation. In new and revolutionary development of this kind there are unforeseen at Cape Verde, while a long-ware in wireless forecasts, but it seems snags which must be overcome, and station at Lisbon is erected for safe to prophesy that within five research and experiments inevit communicating with

years an important part of nearly ably go on after the system is work- Europe. The Portuguese ing. To attain precise unity of was officially inaugurated in the every receiving set will be a small working and the same standard of presence of the President and screen, on which will appear the face or figure of the broadcasting manual dexterity in stations Prime Minister on April 30.

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BEAM SYSTEM HOPES.

TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927.

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this is one direction in which you young musicians can triumph over broadcasting."

Sir George Hume, M.P. last year's chairman of the London County Council, who presented the prizes, said that when he was a small boy they used to think it a great thing if they could play with one finger "The Elfin Waltz" or Mozart's "Invitation to the Dance." The London County Council realis- ed how much hidden talent there

membered that the Post Office, in

The South America continent Is securing itself absolutely against risk, does not complete paying for to a promising aphere for wire- it the stations, or relieve the Marconi less development. At present

costs more to telegraph direct Company of its responsibility, until from England to Buenos Aires than six months after the stations have it does to send a message to that When the wireless station at been operating. It may therefore country via New York, down the Eindhoven, in Holland, recently be said that testa continue for six west coast of the United States, broadcast on a wave length of across Central America, down the 32.37 metres, Mr. Raymond Allsop, The next station in the Empire west coast of South America, over chief engineer of the broadcasting was in young England, and during chain to be opened is that for com- the Andes to Buenos Aires. In station at Sydney, by means of a recent years had been making à municating with South Africa. The a short period there will be direct three-valve short wave receiver special effort to dig it out. official tests for this station have wireless communication from Eng-picked up the programme at 4 p.m. begun. The corresponding stations lang to Buenos Aires. That city at his house at Coogee,

months.

In England are at Bodmin and will also be put in direct com- He then relayed to the broadcast- Bridgwater, in association with the munication by wireless with Rio. ing station, where it was amplified Canadian stations. On this side Rapid developments may be ex- and rebroadcast. The reception the Grimsby and Skegness stations pected with short-wave wireless was excellent. are ready to begin operating with throughout the whole of South India, but it will be a month before America, where the Marconi Com pick up over-ses broadcasts, but Experts declare that it is easy to the stations in India are thorough pany's activities include running Mr. B. T. Fisk, managing director ly complete. It has been necessary the whole postal, telegraph, and of the Amalgamated Wireless Com- to change wave lengths in this case wireless services in Peru. A

great cable company should enter

MORE MUSIC IN THE HOME.

the

A plea for more music in home was made by Dr. John War- riner at the annual presentation of

and to alternate between 16.816 and heavy loss under State operation Pany, believes that the beam system 34.168 metres. It takes about has been turned into a substantial offers the best hope of a regular ser twenty minutes to change over. profit, and, following upon this vice. It will not be surprising if These are the major stations in the example, Peru's neighbour, Bolivia, it is attempted next year. Empire chain included in the Gov- has just granted a similar conces- ernment plan, erected in England sion to Marconi, by the Marconi Company and by its The Eastern Telegraph Company, associated companies in the Domi- which lost the Egyptian concession, nions. New Zealand is still with defeated Marconi in competing for out a wireless polley, which is sur- the wireless concession in Greece, prising in the case of this enter and the Marconi Company is now prising Dominion. It showed cau- building a station for its successful tion by not following the example rival. It is significant that this of Australia and South Africa in committing itself in the first in

into the wireless sphere,

prizes and certificates to students stance to costly high-power sta There are other developments in of Trinity College of Music (Lon- tions, but there is no reason why Beam wireless, notably one of the don Centre) at the Central Hall, it should hesitate longer in having large European companies haa just Westminster. "I would like to see its own stations for direct com given an order to Marconi to erect a greater endeavour to bring more) munication with England. New a station in place of the provisional music into the home," said Dr. War- foundland, one of the great cen- and incomplete station which it has riner, who is the chairman of the tres for Empire communication, is already been operating. It looks at London Centre of the college. "In also without its own wireless ser present as if the short-wave system, days gone by every member of the vice.

directional or otherwise, will be family could contribute to a musl- adopted all over the world, except cal programe in the home, but that for official purposes by Govern has been gradually dying. One ments or for universal broadcast thing wireless cannot do is play an accompaniment for a singer, and

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