Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1925)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio Broadcast
Date:
May-Oct 1925
Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company [etc.]
Volume:
Radio broadcast ..
Leaf #:
00095
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:
September 29, 2022
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SCENES IN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS Often called the lost islands of the Pacific, which William Beebe, the noted explorer and scientist, investigated some years ago. A taxi driver in New York, who had been a sailor shipwrecked on the islands appeared on a radio program and described his experiences there. Broadcasting programs of a high order are tending toward better unity and the " Explorer's Night Program" in which Mr. Christiansen took part from weaf and connected stations was one of this new type. The center cut shows a giant marine lizard which exists only in the Galapagos Islands. It lives in the sea and is about five feet long. The upper left picture shows specimens from the sea being gathered from the yard-arm of the exploring ship. The upper right photograph shows a huge boa constrictor caught near the Islands. The lower left picture is of a giant marine lizard feeding in the surf. The lower right shows a Hoatzin fledgling, the missing link between the lizard and the bird