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RADIO BROADCAST
Sometime during this period he connected a condenser across the telephone of a simple audion receiving system and noticed that on some bulbs an increase in signal strength would result.
He proceede'd with his careful studies and experiments and obtained what he believed to be remarkable results. He showed the results to his father and asked for money with which to make application for a patent. His father refused, apparently not greatly impressed. Armstrong then applied to his uncle who also declined to finance him but suggested that the young man make a drawing of his principle and have it witnessed by a notary. Armstrong did so and it proved to be the most significant event of his life. The decisipn of the court was very materially influenced, it is apparent, by the fact that Armstrong had definite theories and beliefs about his invention and had carefully recorded them.
Armstrong failed to get the support of his family, but he did gain the attention of Professor Michael 1. Pupin who took him into the Marcellus Hartley laboratories at Columbia University and enabled him to continue his researches. Litigation began in igi6 and continued until this country entered the war when a truce was signed. Armstrong was commissioned a major in the Signal Corps and was sitting in Hindenburg's former headquarters at Spa, Belgium, after the Armistice when a cablegram from his lawyer announced that Doctor de Forest was again pressing for action. The end has now been reached.
In the meanwhile Armstrong had issued licenses for the use of his patent in manufacturing receiving sets to seventeen different concerns, and then sold the patent itself to the
E. H. ARMSTRONG The discoverer of the "feed-back" circuit, in the uniform of a major in the Signal Corps during the war
Westinghouse Company. Under the licensing agreement which the Westinghouse Company has with the other manufacturers which sell through the Radio Corporation, the Armstrong circuit will continue to be used by them. The decision will not affect these manufacturers nor the public. It will give credit and profit where both are due.
ADVENTURES IN RADIO
Perhaps no other branch of science enjoys the romance and the spirit oj adventure ever present in Radio. It matters not whether it is the radio telegraph or the radio telephone, one has as many advantages as the other in this respect. Of course, radio telegraphy is the older of the two, and its exploits are more numerous; up to now, it covers a wider field of endeavor on both land and sea.
Aside from the everyday uses of radio, there are a great many instances in the history of the art which stand out as milestones in the march of progress; instances which few devotees of radio broadcasting know about. Many of these adventures were unique — not always possible or practicable to duplicate; on the other hand some were accidents, others mere incidents, still others great adventures; adventures never to he forgotten and which stand out as red letter days for the individuals concerned.
By adventures of radio we mean that which deviates radically from the commonplace . Radio has