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RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.

Oscillations Overcome.

Radio frequency amplification is no, proof against local oscilla tion. But tuned radio frequency and oven this to a certain oxtent.

For a good three-tubo sol, with a stage of radio and one of audio frequonoy amplification, thoro-

HISTORY IN THE

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ford, it is advisable to use a tuned of the world unfold, before our Inductance rather than a radio-yes like a film play at the cinoma 2 It is not impossiblo, frequency transformer in the Just imagine what this means plato of the first. tubo and a similar inductance in the aerial

circuit.

This is the principle, upon which this week's hook-up is based. To insura further against any possible queals or howls, a potentiomoter is placed across the filamont circuit of the radio. smplifying tube. The result is a stablo, radio,audio frequency amplitler with practically no loss in.selectivity and volume.

The parts of this set include: Two fixed couplers of to} 4 ratio.

to ace with our own oyas great personalities of former: timos and historic scenes such as tho Napolenio wars and the Fronah Revolution our civilisation stooped in the darkness of madioval timon-the rise and fall of other mighty civilisations, Rome, Grosco, Babylon, Egypt; and so on right down through the ages to the period when life was just beginning on earth--| oven to the time when our earth was forming out of nebuli.

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It is almost boyond our im agination to concelvo auch wonderful possibility writos G. Two variable condensers, H. Daly in Popular Wireless, 13-plato.

Yet one day scienco may enable

One audio-frequency transfor-us to see it all by unlocking tho

mer, to ratio.

Two 6-ohm rhoestats.

Ona 400-ohm potentiometer, Three tube sockets. One variable grid leak and condenser,

Ono single circuit phono jack. No. 14 copper wire for connec- tions.

The two fixed couplers in the aerial and in the first ubo's plate circuit are exactly alike. They can be made as follows:

secrets of the mysterious other in which the earth and all other! worlds are floating like a numbor of ships as a vast ocean.

Buried away in the other is a record, complete to the minutost detail, of the oarth and everything that has appeared on the earth's; surface since the world began. This record is in the form of light waves which are waves in this my- storious ether somewhat similar to waves in the son. Every object. On a tube 31-2 inches la on the earth, unlinate or in- diainator by 2 inches high, wind animate, upon which light bás 15 turns of No. 2 DCC wire. fallen has reflected its imago into Wind 60 turns of the same wire, spaco, and this image travels in the same way, on another tube of the form of light waves for all slightly larger diameter and timo for light waves are eternal,]

DIAGRAM OF THE DESCRIBED HERE.

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inches long. Fit the smaller winding into the larger_tube by braces of Horows, 80 as to keep them in permanent relationship to each other.

Ropeat this with the other inductance.

The connections are made as shown in the diagrams. They should be as short and direct as possible.

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as we can see to a cortain extent with our own oj 09.

For instance, the light waves from the sun take about oight and one-third minutos to reach the earth, and for this reason the sun is not visible to us for oight and a third minutes rison It has actually after above the horizon. The sun ie' merely 93 million miles away-a The best way to connect these very short journoy for light inductances is to attach each to waves which travel at 186,000 its condensor by a bruce. Care milos por second. But take some should bo takon that the in-really distant star, such as one of ductances are at right angles to those in the Milky Way, which each other.

on latest measurements is about 'Thirteen-plate condensors have one hundred thousand billion! boon found of best advantage in miles away from the sun. this hook-up. Their capacity would be around .00025 mfd.

Ono rheostat of, 6. ohms. re- sistance is unod for both radio and audio amplifying tubes, and a similar rheostate is employed for the dotector tube.

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in the Milky Way takes 25,000 that light waves are otornal, as possibly, in fact quite probably, light waves which have left the years to reach the earth, and the we understand the word. astronomor who to-night

Now if beings happen to oxist earth, whether it was yesterday amince the stars of the Milky on some distant star on, say, the or a thousand years ago, will Way through his telescope is not frontiers of the Milky Way, these return to the earth some time or another. This is because récont seoing them as they are to-night, beings, if they are equipped with but as they were 25,000 years ago-super telescopos, will be scoing light waves follows a circular or investigation tends to slow that The grid loak should vary bo tween 1 and 2 mogohms and the The light waves by which we so the world as it was 25,000 years elliptical path round the sun. A grid condenser should have the Milky Way at the present ago, for light waves from the capacity of about .0005 mfd.: time left there before the dawn earth tako 25,000 years to reach picture of the young earth OF some interesting event The regular round No.. 14 cop of our bistory, and should any the Milky Way. Therefore, what

bistory may avon now per wire is advised for the loads, star of the Milky Way cosse to happened on earth 25,000 years bo flowing past your book Instead of the rectangular bus exist at this moment it would ago is not lost, and if we were on door in the form of other waves wire, because the square edges of still bo visible on earth for that star equipped with supor which are invisiblo to your eyes, the bus wire, are conducive to another 25.000 years. Thus we telescopes we should 800 the but which only require some radiating lossbe

can actually son light waves earth as it was at that time. Instrument to make them visible, This set is best adapted to the which havo boon travelling for It is just the same with earthly like the wirelose roociver in the use of UV-200 tube for detector 25,000 ydars; and UV-201-A tubes for the Now and then the astronomers events which took place a case of reception of broadcast-- ämplifiers.

at the Mount Wilson Observatory thousand or a million years ago-ing.. The phone jack. and the in America, whon examining nothing is lost-for a picture of

through their the earth and everything that has apply to wireless wayth which primary of the second radio the hoavons frequency: Inductance "may bo gigantic 100-inch. telescopo-the appeared on the earthistravelling are of the ether, similar to light connected to the positive of a largest in the world-catch tho through space at the present waves. Every conoqrt which 45-volt battory, although barost glimpse of some tiny star moment. It is indeed possible has boon broadcast-every. 8.0.8. mathematically which has boan sent from a this may be increased to 67 1-2 or hardly the size of a pin-point. It to work out oven 90 volts, if more volume is desirod. With the incroase in volume, it inust be remember ed, thore comes sacrifice in selectivity.

The tuning of the sot depends DEADLIEST POISON: GAB. sinks into the ground and will almost wholly on the two con- Professor Cool Dellele Burns haunt basements and subways densers, whoso highest officiency At the funeral of Rear-Admiral of the London University, states for days. It can now be produced will be found at almost similar Sir John Hoxt, at Nowton Abbot, that a deadly poisonous gas bas in big quantition, and gas masks readings. But the potentiometer last month the Admiral's fav been discovered. It can be easily are the only protection. Sufficient comes in for extremely careful ourite terrior frotted up to the distributed from soroplanes and gas can be carried in a single adjustment, the moment a squeal chancol stops before the church le invisible and without smell, aeroplane to spread death over a is heard in the phones. Once this ofliolala noticed it. When caught, but anyone breathing it will die radius of a quarter of a mile ofis takon care of, however, it will be the animal was only dragged out in terrible agony from six to the spot from where it is found that the set will work well of church with difficulty.

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has been estimated that the light exactly whereabouts in space sinking ship, from the powerful, from this star takes, at least one say historio incident of the past, hurried ory of the Titanio hundred thousand years to reach such as the burning of Rome or to the urgent call of the ill-fated

Egyptallard travelling" the earth. The tiny pin-point of the assassination of the Archduke

through the other of spaco and light in the telescope, which is of Austria, happens to bo the image of a star, has boon It is not possible, however, to will travel for over, even after travelling for d hundred thousand travel to some distant star faster this earth is cold and dead. W

than light waves, and sexamino Wiroloss wavos, it should. bo years or more.

thaan waves as they arrivo like added, have the speed of light, AFTER MILLIONS OF YEARS. Bimilarly light wavos must be the soul of the man in namely, 188,000 miles per second arriving on the earth, which have Flammarion's book "Lumen," So and are subject to the same laws boon travelling for millions of how are we to get hold of the alight waves, so that if the years, and even for longer poriods light-wave which left the earth latter are proved conclusively to than we can possibly imagino those hundreds and thousands of follow a circular path and return only our telescopes are not, as years ago, and to see the past to the oart, the same fact will

apply to wireless: Waven. 3) without further adjustment. { yet, powerful enough to detect over again?zdan