Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1922)

Radio Broadcast 340 Ranchers in sparsely settled districts will subscribe to a radio-telephone, and be in close contact with distant neighbors. Mining camps, mushrooming on a mountain-side, will have their radio telephone with town long before a telegraph company feels justified in stringing wires. And when snowslides or storm have felled all wire lines, the radio telephone will be unhampered; for the medium it employs lets the avalanche slip under it, and the snowflakes sift unhindered through it. In great cities, also, as well as in far-off villages, and farm lands, we already see at hand the sweet music of opera, or orchestra; or the lines of a play, sent over the wire telephone from microphones on the stage to a central radio telephone plant, and there translated into ether vibrations. to be absorbed by the wires of a thousand new aeolian harps, and carried down thence to a tiny receiver in each home. Plans for distributing such eternal music from some lofty tower in New York, 1 understand, are already under way, and on a not far distant Christmas dawn, the wireless operators and cabin listeners on steamers far out on the Atlantic may hear carols and glad tidings from the home city, far down in the West. And what more does the future hold for the newest, farthest-reaching art? Ask of the Sphinx of Science, who ever remains silent in the shadow of dawn. Could Poe, the dreamer, the idealist, live again to-day, he might not call as he did, to science: "Vulture, whose wings are dull realities!" Dr. De Forest measuring the current in various circuits employing a large sized vacuum tube for wireless telephone transmitting