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Bookbinding

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1926.

CURRENT RADIO TOPICS.

NOTES AND NEWS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

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From the beautiful jewel and ivory inlaid bindings of the 7th century to the rich and delicate gold tooling of the present day, bookbinding has always exemplified the mastery of handcraft.

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FAVOURITE FEATURE.

RADIO JOTTINGS.

It is said that a broadcasting an- nouncer in India must have a knowledge of 32 different langu Lagen.

A recent survey In Denmark. One of the minor booms which showed about 70,000 ratlio sets in the Dawes plan brought to Geruse In Copenhagen there are. many was the radio.

48,000 sets, 35 per cent. of them During the inflation period, notube sets. broadcasting stations existed, be- A Bay City (Michigan) ordinance Cause economic and political stipulates that no person or or anarchy would have turned the ganization mity operate a radio re- radio to their own uses. Any one ceiver in the city without a license. who then built hinisalf a set to A license costs $2 and requires listen in on French or English stathat sets must not cause interfer- tions was subject to a harsh pen-jence to nearby receivers.

During the last year more than With the stabilization of cur 50 high school and university rency and the subsequent political broadcasting stations have turned consolidation all this changed in their licenses to the Department rapidly: Almost over night, Berlin of Commerce.

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COLOSSAL GROWTH..

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and a few other large cities erect- A piezo crysbal, similar to those ed broadcasting stations which used by many radio stations to soon won enthusiastic clienteles control the frequency or Other, smaller cities built relay length of their transmitters, is on stations most of which transmit display in the exhibit of the United the Berlin programme.

States Bureau of Standards at the Sesqui-Centennial, Exposition, To-day there Are close to Wiraluba telephone equipment is 1.500,000 licensed radio acts into be installed on 36 Germin Germany, their number growing trains, Telephone. subscribers at the rate of several thousand throughout the country will be day. Of these, approximately 70jable to get into prompt communi- per cent, are crystal sets, the rest cation with relatives and friends valve of varying capacity. There travelling on any of the trains. are also a number of freebooters The output of companies mana- of the air, who evade the monthly facturing radio equipment in the license fee of half a dollar. Con-United States is now valued at fiscation of their acta and heavy about $660,000,000 a year, as com fines are the punishment meted pared with $2,000,000 in 1920. out to these pirates, when they are

found out by the special detectives RADIO AIDS EXPLORER. af the postal authorities.

Corresponding to the rapid growth of "broadcasting, the pro- grammes, evolved from crude to nicely balanced selections. From the accompaniments to the daily dozen in the early morning hours

SEVERE TESTS FOR SHORT.

WAVES.

The aid of radio and of the in-

to the final "Deutschland ueber creasingly valuable short-wave" Alles' at midnight, there is almost has been enlisted by another continuous transmission.

explorer who is leaving for the Naturally music plays a large most dangerous part of South part. Most of it is classical, but America. sometimes also the strains of a

Commander G. M. Dyott, former jazz-band are wafted through the officer in the British navy, plans ether. All classical music. is us-to explore the territory first cover- ually preceded by an introduction, ed by Theodore Roosevelt in cen- South America, retracing his clate the mysteries of Beethoven, steps on the River of Doubt in Haydn or Gluck During certain Brazil. nights the productions of the State Opera House are broadcast.

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Roosevelt with his party was buried for months in the tangle" ENGLISH DEALS TAUGHT... of thick forests, trackless rivers The most outstanding feature, and wide high plains, which he however, is the aerial language. found in this unknown country, The subjects taught are Esperante, and battled with the malarial fever French and English, the latter pre- and torrential rains with no word ponderating. "These lessons are of his activities reaching the out- broadcast from the Berlin station side world. The hardships for Com and its relays. It is estimated mander Dyott and his little party that there are at least a million will be equally severe, but the sets within range of these stations magie arm of radio, will keep him and thus three times a week, men; in touch with the world and keep women and children clap receivers the world in touch with him, on their heads and imbibe English

TO FLASH DAILY REPORTS. sounds, English grammar and, in- Commander Dyatt, who is plan cidentally, English ideals--all dis-ing to check the maps and findings pensed by an English university made by Roosevelt and to supple- professor.

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Arthur L. Perkins of Elmsford. What when completed, will be the largest high-powered wirelcas N. Y., and Eugene Bussey of Yon- atation in the world is to be built korsy N. Y., are two amateurs who at Nagoya, an important manufac-will broadcast his reports, on the turing city of West Japan, The the short wave, to the rest of the order has been placed with the world.

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There will be two complete short marks the first concrete step taken by Japan to send out news to the wave stations, one controlled by. world and to "listen in" on the Bussey ns a base station near Cor- umba, while the other under Per- world.

The station is to be equipped kins will go with Dyott and his with the latest mechanical ap- party. Both sets will be operated pliances and, according to the con- on 300 volts from B batteries.

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By Act of Parliament of the pherage of 500 kilometres and and there has been many a time

Router's Moscow correspondent A Havana message states that it when even the northern signals 120,000 metres.

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