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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

A WONDER SET.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1926.

HEARING YOUR PLAY:

AN AUTHOR ON BROADCASTING.

James L. Hadson, writes as fol- lows to the Daily Mail:

WORLD'S SMALLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT.

From a navy dump heap at San Diego, California, has come the world's smallest and most effl- Hearing pour play broadcast is cient radio transmitting and re-an amusingly uncanny experience. I was unaccountably nervous; celving set!

quite as nervous as at a first night. Marine corps necessity was the Thousands of people, one reflected, mother of this invention.

would be glancing at the pro- Now Captain Francia E. Pierce, Kranime.....

A few words of explanation, and communications oflcer for the lot the characters you know better Air-craft Squadrons, West Coast than anybody else in the world Expeditionary Forco, United have come to life; for life is in their valees... You can picture the States Marine Corps, receivee the perfect acure that no stage can' plaudits of the world for produc-entirely achieve the sunlight ing a set which weighs, including pouring in through the window, the beautiful turn of her head, sander, receiver, batteries and aer- the rich burr of his voice. iais, 17 pounds.

The transmitter, nine Inches tall and 10 inches. broad, weighs only 51⁄2 pounds i

300 MILES RADIUS.

The success of this tiny set 10 based on the frequency used (on the 3000-4000 kiloevele band), for

The play goes on. You observa with pleasure (or is it dismay?) that the producer has had to write In words here and there, create banging doors, the clatter of a footstep, the sound of a kiss, the fait voice down the street to lend actuality to the scene.

One fault is marked, the need

on this frequency it attains greater for greater contrast in the wo- distance for the power expended men's voices. than do ordinary transmittora. Installed in an aeroplane and

operated under flying conditions, By this time your anxiety has its messageş' may be heard 300 vanished; you are almost enjoy- miles away under ordinary condi-Jing the performance of these pup- tions.

pets you have sparked into life For the past two yeare officers and will presently plunge into and enlisted men of the group death. have been spending their personal

r

You can mutter "What rot!" or funds to keep the radio work, go-Not bad, that!" and not a sout ing, and, digging old parts from

the government trash heap, have the wiser. You can turn the ter- produced the "wonder set,"

The whole transmitter is alung in shock absorber cord and ar- ranged. for mounting in' the rear

rible sllence that greets the play's end into boga or cheers, as your whim dictates.

Best of all, there are none,

of the cockpit, seldom requiring moved by the spirit that took peo- ple to Tower Hill on execution attention once adjusted..

This new instrument is particu-morning, to, hale you before the larly adaptable for use on airmail curtain. You remain steeped in planes, for their present wireless becoming and complete isolation. equipment weighs from 125 to 150 pounds.

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What is doubtless the tiniest caméra in the world. is "part of a medical apparatus invented by

To have your play caught from the winds on a bit of wire beneath the stars and presented to you in your box that is a snug armchair that is the perfect way to enjoy your play. All first-nights ought to be broadcast.

stomach to the end of which is fitted a tiny electric light and periscope mirror..

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The camera is at, the other end- of the tube, and the lens is just Dr. Elsner, of Berlin, described in large enough to admit a reflected picture of the inside of the sto- mach.

a lecture before the German Medi- cal Society.

He explained that hitherto all examinations

.

Seven different pictures of the

of the human walls of the stomach can be made stomach on Eving persona had in quick succession, and the nega- been made by X-rays, but direct tives are enlarged. photographs were more satisfac- tory..

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