Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-05-27
MILLIONS MAY HEAR
MEMORIAL DAY TALKS
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Harding and Chief Justice Taft, If a
million people care to attend the
ceremonies The space around Lin
coin IMMORTAL extends for many thous-
and feet almost in every direction
one of the widest public parks in the
world-and vet the army engineers.
who have the celebration in charge.
believe il will be physically impos-
sible TO bring so many people to the
colebration-that some OF them will
be unable to hear.
The Loud Speaker" is a scientific
development of the Bell System, not a
commercial device. For this celebra-
ton it is the gift to the nation by the
Company, and American Telephone
and Telegraph Company. Engineers
OF these organizations will have been
at work on installing the apparatus
for more than a month and will oper-
ate the intricate and delicate yet pow
erful machinery during the speeches.
The thousands of Washingtonians
and visitors who hear the words OF
the ceremonies will see no mechanical
apparatus and will be unable to detect
any unnatural tone in the voices of
the speakers, Though far out of
range of the average spoken voice
coming from the memorial, they will
hear as plainly as II standing but
few feet from the speaker. The voices
will carry in every direction, and a
person standing at the foot of the
Washington Monument will be able to
hear as plainly as any one close to
the memorial.
Concealed about the memorial
building viii be the loud-speaking
projectors from which will issue the
words of President Harding and for
,ner President Taft. In every direc-
ION the speeches will go out from
these big horns, and though amplified
millions of times by the intricate APP
paratus. every infection and tone of
the spoken voice will be retained. One
can stand. in front OF the speaker,
turn around and walk half mile
while the speech is in progress, but
he will not be able to detect where he
passes from the zone of the natural
voice into the area served by the loud
speaker. There is no raucous, shout
ng tone. such as comes from mega
.,hone.
Though the words of the speakers
will be carried by wires to expensive
md extremely delicate apparatus,
where they will be boosted and thence
ent to the projectors that will send
them forth, they will sound out at the
same instant. practically, that they
ire uttered. In front of the speakers
will be little box, containing high
ly sensitive transmitter similar to that
On an ordinary telephone. Wires
leading from the transmitter will
transmit the words to the amplifying
apparatus inside the building
nere the electrical waves, passing
the amplifiers will be boosted
many mIlllOnS Ol tiiIiCS, Hudlty TcdCu-
ing the telephone receivers enormous
, strengthened. but with all the orig
nal qualities impaired to the trans
.nitter.
The receivers are connected. to the
horns. and like the ordin-
airy telephone receiver. charge the
electrical waves back into actual
There will be a number of
all on the same electrical
circuit, so that the words will be
broadcasted to all the crowd sur
the memorial.
Though a great amount of work Is
accessory in preparation for the
none of this will be ap-
parent to the crowd. The projectors
will be placed and concealed so as tol
with the memorial and
,nly those previously informed will
realize that they are present.