Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-09
EXPERTS PREDICT QUICK
ADVANCE IN SCIENCE
Radio in It's Infancy, With
Unlimited Field for
Expansion.
TICKER SERVICE ~ COMING:
Apparatus Already Has Been De-
signed " hi'h WIN. u Is Relieved.
Permit listening In tn Any be-
sired BruadcastinE Station.
By a.. W. Horn.


The present stage OF radio broad
casting. while it may seem To the
hninitiatcd To bc quite advanced. is
really only in its infancy. according
10 G. W. Horn. in charge OF the
WeSiinGhousc Radio Service Depart
mcnt At East Pittsburgh. Pa
Ny. Horn briefly forecasts some OF
the possibilities in the following
article:
so far. radio broadcastins has
confined itself 1" sending out at rcgu-
lar periods some musical entertain
ments. or perhaps occasionally some
market REPORTS In which. probably.
"u' small perccntHEc OF the listen
'Fs are interested. At periods they
broadcast speeches BY prominent
men and connect into thcatcrs and
p'h"r places of amusement and
broadcast their programs. All this
- very interesting. but something
NOR" definite viii have To come out
OF all this in order to put broad
"f our cvcdy-day life.
Ticker service Coming.
Undoubtedly. the business man
clock and note that il is 3 O'Clock.
AZ which time the stock market has
closed ana. being Interested in "a lew
inherent issues Of stock Will throw
Il small switch and 80 on with his
WORK while a loud speaker will be
rcauinE of the stock reports at Tn.
closing OF that days business When
ne hears the stocks or bonds. or 9TH
ct securities in which he Is interest
Ell ne VIII make a note and when
ne Is through switch OF the app,r:, o.
tHS. FIRMLY believe that in TN. fu-
tur" regular ticker service Will H..
ihh urdtci which Will broadcast all
sorts OF financial anu business news
on hN"d schedules. All that viii he
ItHu'r"h to pick up this Information
VIII be radio receiver installed
with push button to start and sion
it,
There is really no limit to the
uses "i the great game which tn.
westinghouse Company inaucurafcd
over year ago by establishing the
"iH. RAN" br"a'ica&t;nG station.
NpNA. at East Pittsburgh Pa, and
ihdlhtainE that station, even thong h
'hcE were not intcrcscd in the man
uIactnre and sale of radio appa-,ius
me westinghouse Company finally
saw the great good that was couiur
out OF this innovation and began the
manufacture of simplficd and easily
I ~" n'puIatcd apparatus. especially
designed for the home The AFRO
now putting on the market a tyu, of
apparatus which is similar In an
Pearance To Nictruls. or other phou :
"Eraphic cabinet. and the only oper-
"t'oh necessary to place IL in opera
non is 10 push II switch. which
'hf"Ws all the circuits. lights m.
'uDrs and permits the receiver Ia
PICK w whatever energy is in III.
AR ana To reproduce the signals
through loud speaker INCORPORATED
IN this machine.
Hear Congress Drbntrs
The future holds much in s;,rn IA,
TINS field OF cudeuvor. and as ne,vs
papers and other news agencies are
aware firmly believe that IL viii
not be many Years bcfor. pconlc
'hr"nShou the country will know
what is Transporting ut Washinr,nr
ana other seats OF government: viii
hear their representatives I'm ai,h.,
congress or the Senate debating an
questions in which they arc yit,ily
Interested viii hear the executive
reading his -.'c-ing speech to CON.
SfcSS. AMI many other such imnor.
tant events. when this tim. arrives
IL VIII he possible for the constitu.
cntS of a senator or Rcprcsent,tiv,
l" Eno" just how their servant IN
Congress is behaving himself and
whether IN" is really and truly ron
rcscn;ing his district. and moi moral
serving his own ends.
Perhaps. aud ;his firmly hclicyn
II viii really lead up 10 that idea
p"int Tor which wc have all Strivcn
and which was so ably expressed hy
Ahraham Lincoln. Government oi
the ne"2ic. by the people. and for