Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1922)

Page scan 000507 from Radio Broadcast

Record Details:

Title:
Radio Broadcast
Date:
May-Oct 1922
Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company [etc.]
Volume:
Radio broadcast ..
Leaf #:
000507
Language:
English
Subjects:
radio periodical, Radio -- Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Broadcast supported home listeners of the new technology of radio – for building or buying a receiving set to explaining the technology used by the new radio stations. Throughout the magazine shows the cultural influence of radio as it evolved from hobbyist to mainstream. -- David Pierce, 2011
Date Added:
July 18, 2024
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Developments in High-Power Radio 485 originally employed. All three undesirable features are gradually being eliminated, however, and it is expected that the arc will then radiate as pure a wave as any of the other existing transmitters. By originally adopting the arc transmitter for its high-power stations, the Navy has obtained satisfactory service from the beginning and it has not yet become necessary to replace the original installation in order to keep abreast of the progress in radio. It thereby avoided the expense which the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (now the Radio Corporation of America) found it necessary to assume when that company was obliged to scrap practically new spark transmitters and install alternators in all its high-power stations in order to carry on transoceanic traffic satisfactorily. It also avoided long delay in establishing its transcontinental, transpacific chain of high-power stations such as has been experienced by the British in establish ARLINGTON Probably the best known radio station in the world. All manner of new developments are tried out by the Navy at this station. Mariners listen for its time signals and weather reports the world over