The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-21
THE RADIO PHONE
Matter of Time When Indi- vidual Will Garry Switch
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This is getting to be spooky old world.
 Transmitting human voices over telephone wires was mysterious enough and still is.
 Then came wireless telegrapny, which is considerable of thrill to the imagination.
 With Sir Oliver Lodge claiming he is getting phone Cor phony) mes sages from the dead, and MarcOni is receiving communications from Mars or somewhere.
 Now comes the announcement that they have perfected the long distance radio phone system. In other words the human voice can be transmitted any distance without wires Anna teurs have proved it.
 This should prove a great boon since the amateurs operating on the present phone system have gummed the wires until the Morse theory ap- pears all wrong.
 "Robert F. Gowen, engineer in charge of the DeForest Radio Sta ton, Ossining, N. Y, has talked to Chicago, it is reported.
 Radio amateurs at Gaffney, s. C., Columbus City, Ind, and Salem, O., confirm it in writing as frightening them off their chairs. More Salem witchcraft.
 The Radio Amateur News also credits Earl c. Hanson with having talked to an aeroplane from, a nov ing train; so when this new phone system is installed one ought to be able to get East Orange even if the air over the Jersey meadows is preg- nant with static perfume.
 The News states you can get a sim pie radio telephone for $50-cheap as anything-or everything at pres ent.
 It is only a matter of tirne when every individual will be carrying his own little switchboard. Vest pocket style for men, handbag style for the women.
 If we have been slaves to the tele- phone in. the past it is going to be more so in the future. There will be no privacy.
 Many a poker game will be dis turbed when friend wife calls up ex- friend hubby, who has been detained at the office by work. And speak ing of phoning from moving trains, wait till MT. Newlywed gets a ring from his "Angel'' while riding home packed in among the subway sardines. Baby takers necesSitated the con- struction of sound-proof telephone booths, so it can be seen that the travelling public will have to submit to additional horros.
 But think of the advantages No no more Morristowns when you want F'Iatbushers, no more 'texcuse 1t please,'' etc.
 You can take your '+transmitter connected to a separate primary wind ing of a, special audio freQuency transformer with secondary leads that go to the antenna and ground proper, respectively, and call up ~ anybody anywhere, any time. You can get a connection with the Senate if you are troubled with insomnia and listen to Lodge eulogizing Woodrow Wilson as the greatest President since Taft With a special attachment on youl receiver you can vary the intensity and pitch of the incoming sounds tc suit your political taste.
 This will be great convenience fol general managers, superintendent! and executives. They wont's have tt come to the plant at all, and cal bawl out the office force from tn, golf links, no matter how far off tn, green.
 Traffic cop can call up a speeding motorist and tell him he's arrested before the cop catches him.
 You can call up the aerial mai carrier and tell him to stop droppinj ,f post cards all over your front lawn There are endless possibilities in tn thing. And atmospheric condition will not interfere with conversation
 The potential gradients will no disturb the ''emitted eIectrons" 'tpos tive charges" get along without ir ritating the negative ions" and tn thermal gradients function in, spit of the ''belium atoms. The thin is as simple as A. B. C.