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The Part that a Broadcasting Receiver Played During the First Leg of a Motor Trip Around the World*
By PETER TAYLOR
OI THE running board of our car is a rectangular box, riding underneath its muddy rough-looking waterproof cover. A passerby might think it a supply or tool box such as any tourist might carry. However, when I remove the cover in an auto camp or in some city street, and let the front side drop to form a narrow desk, a black panel with dials is disclosed, which leads the way to music and to speech — a trip from camp far out into space. Adjoining the panel in a second compartment is a square, screencovered opening — a loud speaker. A top lid lifts, under which are tubes and brown bakelite variometers on the rear of the panel. Sponge rubber carefully cradles the apparatus
*The writer of this article, with his sister, Mildred Taylor, also a writer, and Blanding Sloan, friend and artist, left New York on April 26, 1923. (Their departure is shown in the photograph on page 229, RADIO BROADCAST for July.)
attached to the panel which is held in place at either end by rubber-covered grips. In a compartment around the throat of the horn are packed extra bulbs, a set of head-phones and a small flexible coil of antenna wire. Shelved on the end in the third section rides the go-volt B battery, also protected by sponge rubber cushions.
It takes only a moment to put the equipment in operation: a small plug, hanging on a nickeled chain at the end of the panel, is pushed into a jack, lighting the tubes from the storage battery of the car and connecting the loud speaker to the set. The end of a wire running around three sides of the top, underneath the padding, is dropped and connected to the antenna post on the panel, or a twenty-foot wire is stretched up arm's-length to a nearby tree or other object. Now one has merely to turn the dials. The ground connection needs no attention ordinarily, since the frame of the