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Coming Developments in Radio Receivers
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The day of the nine-dial set (of which one of our friends boasted some time ago) is assuredly doomed. Much has been written about the one-dial set. Possibly with refinement in mechanical design and manufacture, it will be made sufficiently efficient to create a market for itself. It is much easier however, to make a two-dial set operate efficiently than a one-dial and as we have two hands which permit simultaneous adjustment of two dials, two controls seems reasonable and justified. The average listener probably prefers two dials to one. With two dials, the adjustment is easy enough, and with one the three-year-old child could adjust the radio outfit as well as Father. Such a situation will probably not be encouraged by the older member of the family — he would lose too much prestige.
The purchaser, who acquires to-morrow's set will probably acquire an outfit with this gradually improved quality of reproduction,
greater freedom from battery trouble and easier adjustment. Improvements in the set's appearance, necessarily costly, will come as the buying public shows its preference for the art type of receiver.
The Radio Receiver of the Victor Company
THE Victor Talking Machine Company has finally entered the radio field. Said a representative of the company:
We have been urged by every known means to manufacture a set of our own. There are many reasons why we should not do so. First, the men and women who work in our factory are skilled in the delicate assembling required in the manufacture of talking machines. It would take a long time for them to develop similar efficiency in the assembling of radio equipment, a process which would be profitable neither to us nor to the public.
THE RADIO ROOM ON A GREAT LAKES PASSENGER SHIP Radio is being modernized on the Great Lakes and tube transmitters and receivers installed. This is a corner of the radio cabin on the S. S. Greater Detroit which sails nightly between Buffalo and Detroit. This new liner of the inland sea is more than 500 feet long and has a passenger capacity of more than 1560. Traffic on the Great Lakes is growing heavier each year, both as regards number of ships and radio communication