Radio Broadcast (May 1927-Apr 1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio Broadcast
Date:
May 1927-Apr 1928
Publisher:
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company [etc.]
Volume:
Radio broadcast ..
Leaf #:
000662
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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In the Laboratory of a Tube Manufacturer Where diligent investigation precedes production of any new kind of tube. The particular laboratory here shown is given over to the study of rectifier tubes — the kind you are accustomed to use in your power-supply devices to rectify the a. c. of the house supply. This investigator is shown engaged in the construction of an experimental tube, which will afterwards be tested and, as likely as not, discarded. It is said that about 99 per cent, of these hand-made experimental tubes are discarded without even being put into production. AVhen we consider the expense of such tireless research, more and more do we recognize the logic of the statement, that it is only the larger and more "moneyed" manufacturers who are capable of producing dependable radio equipment 194