HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924.
(FEATURE SECTION).
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Can Thought Be Revealed?
If ever thoro was prospect of address from the company's head- revealing the mysteries of thought quarters, for inoxceptional cases, and its attendant brain processon, the company, on receiving duo no- it in more certain now than it
tico, could arrango for the spouch. over was, Radio is the cause.
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No loss radin scientist thian to be delivered in his own home. John Stone, of San Diogo, As a matter of fact, the Prince of Calif., foresees the tromendous Wales was the first to do this bo
A possibilities in the field offered by fore the B.B.C. was formed. radio. Stone holds more than small microphone was taken to 120 patents for telephone and York House and linked up with tolograph inventions and has the transmitting station. by a done remarkable service in the land lino, and every word of his field of wireless. Last year the Royal Highness's spooch on Instituto of Radio Enginoora Boy Scout movement was clearly awarded him its model for his audible. Lord Curzon also made a wireless work."
charitablo appeal from his priv- Thought, solentist's generally ate house last year, his speech bo- ngroe, is the product of thing transmitted to the company's minutost waves or impulses in jatation for broadcasting." In this! private the brain: Somehow or other at case his lordship had tempts aro made to rolate montal wires in consequence of his office telepathy to. this description of as Foreign Secretary, which mado thought. But, positive proof has the transmission of the mossago not yet been produced.
an easy matter, Such methods of delivery, however, have hitherto boon quito exceptional,, and a number of ominent speakers have| gone to the company's studio in the Savoy. It was from there that the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered his Now Your's mess. age to the nation and every night|
The threo-oiemont Vacuum tube, howevor, may be the means by which this mystery may be salved. According to Professor Stone.
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"The audion, or three-electrode vacuum tube amplifior, is a vorit- able electrical microscope whose
| power to magnify electrionl effects some well-known person now is onormously, greater than the makes a contribution to the com-
RADIO IN A
NUTSHELL!
William Slye, a 16-year-old Norwood school gy, likes walnuts, oven to the point of making use of the sholle. After eating the meat and scraping the interior clean, he bulids a complote crystal receiving sat within it. The photo and diagram show how he does it. It works, ho
says..
visual magnifying power of the corrosponding optical instrument, May we not reasonably ex- poct that in the future this pro- digious magnifying power of our electrical microscope will be used to dotoct and measure the minuto electrical impulsen upon which all our physical functions are predicated?
Indeed, may we not lock oven further forward with the hopo that by means of this electrical microscope of almost limitless magnifying and resolving power we may be able to dotect and study the brain carronts which. accompany thought-the brain currents which may indeed bothe stuff of which our thoughts are made.".
SPEECHES BY WIRELESS. Tho spocch on Europo in Arma," by Lord Cecil, which was broadcast on February 22nd, was not the first delivered by his lord- ship without an audience in front. of him, for on two provious occa sions ho has visited the studio of the British Broadcasting Co. in Savoy-hill and spoken on the League of Nations, says the Observer. On this Friday night his speech was broadcast to every part of the British Isles, and he had an audience of two million people at a modest estimato.
It le not absolutely, essential that a speaker should deliver his,
pony's programme of " talks" on subjects of varied interest.
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The speeches and addresses are as carefully supervised by the company as a daily newspaper, and each manuscript has to days in be submitted thros
Party politics advance. strictly barrod, and if, in the dollvory of bis address, 1 speaker shonld depart from the manuscript he has submitted, and branch off into some comments which are considered impolitio by the director of the programme, a signal would be given to the onginoer, and the audience would become aware of a sudden hiatus.
RADIO INTERFERENCES." Get ready for a lot of mystor- ious radio interference, warna the astronomer, Dr. David Todd. Ho! announces that another big period of sun-spots has started. Thoso are spread out on the sun over an area 43,000 milles across. The largest of this group of spots ia 9000 miles wide.
Sun-spots, according to scion tifle theory, affect radio through the displays of aurora borealis Radio fans which they create. in the Far North tell us that
northern lights tend to fading rather than nolso.
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Edison suggests that the sun is the source of our electricity. Maybe the radio bug has the sun his slave without knowing it.
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