The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-02-15
THE STORAGE BATTERY
IN WIRELESS TELEPHONY

The Exide Battery Service Co. inter
viewed on wireless telegraphy says:
When speaking of Radio. we have in
mind form of communication in
which signal forming energy Is radiat-
ed from & transmitting station. hence.
is requires receiving station some
where through which the radiating en-
erey is received and changed into in
tenigent sounds.
Aside from the use or radio as
means OF communicating between ships
at sea and shore, as well as Transact
lantic operation. II is known that by
its means many lives have been saved
in numerous ways.
Everyone who hears, sees or reals
OF wireless invariably thinks of the
SOS" The reason is quite apparent.
Jack Binns used it possibly for the
first time to call for help. And the
SOS. that spluttered from the steam
ship Republic q few years ago brought
relief ana then became history.
Exide Storage Batteries, manufact-
ured by the Electric Storage Battery
Company OF Philadelphia, supplied
electric energy 10 operate the Republic
wireless (Which otherwise would have
been speechIess with its silence to
mock the despairing victims) after the
dynamos which normally furnished
electric energy were put out Of order
BY the sea which flooded the engine
room.
Now. radio telephony has introduced
an entirely new use known as Radio
Broadcast" which disseminates news
items, weather reports market condi-
lions. and other items OF general in
terests, at designated time periods. 1t
also makes possible the transmission
Of high class musical programs. both
instrumental and vocal. as well as the
latest form. namely transmitting opera
and classical concerts over = radius OF
from 500 to 700 miles
TO think that one can SIT IN his home.
or visit friends. and listen to high class
music transmitted by radIophone
sounds so marvellous that IL is hardly
surprising that 80 few people are
familiar with radio and so many are
skeptical.
One Of the most progressive com
panies IN this field has been the West
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company. who have installed, and are
now operating four Radio Broadcast
ing stations, located at Springfield.
Mass; Newark. n. J.; East Pittsburgh,
Pa, and Chicago. Ill, respectively.
These stations all operate on 500 meter
wave length and broadcast q regular
program each evening OF the week.
The Pittsburgh station was the first
put into operation, starting December
%. 1920. The others have been added
stree that tine.
Some OF the interesting features that
have been instrumental in popularizing
the radio, was the broadcasting Of
President Harding's inaugural speech,
Of the pentier-Dempsey fight. blow
for blow, and of baseball games, play
for play, as well as the disseminating
OF news and various reports.
At present the Pittsburgh stations
musical program has been referred to
as one of the best programs that has
ever been presented to the public, night
after night. by some of our best must
cal critics This is now being dupIi-
Gated by special arrangements with
artists in Chicago.
one Of the most essential parts OF
the receiving system is the storage
battery and the Electric Storage Bat
terry Company. manufacturers OF tho
famous Exide Battery and pioneers IL
the storage battery field has played q
large part IN the commercial develop
mene of radio telephony by developing
q special Exide Battery for this serv-
ice These radio Exide Batteries can
BE obtained at the various service sta
tions throughout the United States OF
which there are more than 1000 now IN
existence. The local Exide represent
alive is Battery Service Co, 500 Hob
man street