Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-25
RadiOphOne Is Still in Its
Infancy, Is Opinion of
Engineer.
Engineer.
BY DAVID SARNOFF,

BY DAVID SARNOFF,
General Manager Radio Corporation OF
America.
To those of us who watched every
step In the onward march of radio, VINO
saw scientific principles shaping them
selves into business facts, Who sensed
the trend Of research in the development
of wireless, the instantaneous success OF
radiophone broadcasting does not come
as a surprise In 1913, from the POSSIBLE
tiles that could be foreseen l had worked
out a plan for radio broaieasting in
commercial detail and submitted it for
consideration by my company.
The time was not ripe, however, for
action on this project; We were in the
midst of war activities and the devices
for radiophone transmission and recep-
ton had not been perfected TO the point
they have been brought to AT the pres
ent day. Broadcasting is reality now,
and it has been made possible only ly
fine coordinated effort within the indus
try, a large part of the credit being
due to the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company for being first
in establishing 1t on an organized basis.
The hearth side circle is only a small
part of the unmeasured sphere of its in
fuence. however. Country schools can
not afford 10 employ the best teachers
or the most able lecturers. Think of
system of rural education, augmented
through the setting up of a broadcasting
station with range Of several hundred
miles and connecting up within that
radius a thousand country schools. APP
praise the benefit Ct having one skilled
lecturer In history or geography, or nv
giene, or whatever the subject may be,
deliver his lesson as the children listen
in haf- he ,t-3f ha
int, spersing OF appropriate items Of en-
tertainment and music r. hold the chill
dren's interest
And what may we expect when the te1e
phone reaches across the ocean: Up to
the present time there has been no way
for trans oceanic transmission OF the hu-
man voice. because the cables lying on
the bottom Of the ocean are rot suitable
To- speech transmission They can carry
feeble currents for Telegram but not for
telephony, because OF the distortion Of the
speech, and other technical reasons. But
with the radio telephone, it may be pre-
dicted that within the next few years and
possibly sooner, We shall be talking
across the Atlantic Ocean. Ii will be
possible then for man In New York to
pick up his ordinary wire telephone. Sc
cure connection with the radio telephone
station which will carry his Voice across
the ocean and connect up with his partner
or business associate on the other side.
Trans oceanic radio telephony is not a
theory: it is an accomplished facr. Speech
was first transmitted to France by the
American Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. and even a greater distance was
covered by its engineers when their equip
ment at the Arlington Naval Station.
near Washington, enabled speech 10 be
heard IN Hawaii This company and the
associated engineers Of the Western Flee
trio Company have attained very prac-
teal results in their experimental work
In the ship to shore field enabling me d
few evenings ago to talk from my home.
over the ordinary wire, 10 the captain of
the steamship America" 400 miles out
at sea. The highly developed ship radio
telephone transmitter on the America"
was due to the General Electric Company.
(Other articles on the radio of today
and tomorrow by David SarnOf will ap-
pear in later issues of the Times)