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Distance disappears when you're equipped with an Aeriola, Jr. crystal set. These boys made that . delightful discovery, but many others built their own sets.
OWN LIFE STORY
MILLER
heavy-weight boxing championship fight.
On July 2, Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier were to meet at Boyle's Thirty Acres in New Jersey. Interest in the event was feverish. Seats were snapped up. It was the first million dollar gate in history. Radio had to get in on this. Major J. Andrew White, a famous figure in the early days of the air, decided to find a way to broadcast it. But how? There was no such thing as a portable sending unit in those days, and there was no station anywhere near the big wooden saucer. If the fight were to go on the air, a station would have to be built. That would take months. White began to scout around to see what he could borrow.
Fortunately, everyone knew him. He was the editor of RCA's Wireless Age. That was a handsome monthly specializing in such articles as "How To Build A Radiophone" (with a range of twenty-five miles!) though shortly it was to progress to personality interviews and to pictures of such top movie stars as Wallace Reid and Clara Kimball Young enjoying their head-phone sets, and Charles Ray
twith his "Ray-dio" — no press agent could resist that gag. White combed the town. He discovered that General Electric had just finished a big new transmitter for the Navy. He talked fast and managed (Continued on page 91)
WJZ's first studio was in, of all places, a blocked-off part of the ladies' room in Westinghouse's Newark factory.
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