The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05
100000 Radio Phones
Installed in 3 Months

/ BorealiB TO n bacon-nnd-cRg-f frying
sizzlo around the Gulf stream.
Perhaps we shall go further, some
| day and comprehend these snceTs
and Chuckles OF "Old Man Static"
| Then. Il may be. we shall understand
also some OF tho freaks OF wireless
| telephony. For example. not long
ago james Miller OF Aberdeen, Scot
land, was "on tho air" one night
when there came 20 his ears through
the dark tho sound OF distinct
voice. II seemed TO have been borne
In on tho mOonbeAms. Miller ad-
Justcd his apparatus. tuned IT," to
lncrense tho atrength OF those faint
articulations. Then his face grew
tense with wonder. for he heard n
man In KeypUrt. N. j.. $500 miles
away, calling "a brother enthusiast
somewhere over there in America to
stand by" for n demonstration.
II was Hugh Robinson OF Koyport
ana his conversation as we'll AZ the
records Of the phonogrRph he played
for his friend In New Jersey we're
heard Just as clearly and distinctly
by tho man In Scotland. Tho same
conversation and music were heard
that night by n ship 1900 miles out
In tho Atlantic and by another yos-
sel In the harbOr OF Tela. Honduras.
Robinson was using a small set.
deriving It's power from an ordinary
lighting circuit. Ito purchased II
with Il guaranteed range OF 100
miles Radio men say that his
achievement IL just about record
They can't explain how II happened,
Perhaps the atmospheric conditions
wore Just right--"Old Man Static"
IN an indulgept mood--but Il hap.
pencd, ana that's plenty for the
average laymun who 10 unable TO
ht down and work out theories OF
air currents and "envclOping strata"
Of ether.
Rapid Development.
Work on the development Of the
radio telephone commenced al the
beginning Of tho present century
whom "a number Of scientists started
out 10 make the other medium for
the voice as n was Tor the Marooui
spark The sob was tackled at first
principally in college labOTatOric7
although ono or two men connected
with commercial companies lent
their hands ana brain 20 tho task,
Put 90 simply hH possible. the prob
lcm confronting them was tO trans
form the iNDAhuNN rect H HNfbNh
sound waves into Hgrtziau waves
travelling each second 10000 miles.
Then the Uorizirn waves had 10 bg
geared down az tho receiving end 30
that the vibration gould Do detected
ana COmprchcudCd by the suTu8u
car.
Radio men agree that n was the
invention of the vacuum tube by DR..
Leo Dc Forrest that made w,rcloBs
telephony possible This instrument,
familiar TO an radio enthusiasts,
looks not unlike small electric Hight
bulb. u contains a fildmcnt also
like a light bulb. around which iR n
Rrld--a spiral Of finely woven screen
wire. outside the flIamont and the
grid, cncirCling both, IN q small metal
cylinder known as the pllte. The
vacuum tube acts I'm triple capacity
as detectOr. generator and umpli-
fer.
n II is true that the vacuum tube
made wireless telephony possible, II
Is Just az certain that it was the war
that put the science on the map Un-
dor the stress Of tho nations need
the toy became The mighty machine.
accompanying tbs universe. as u
were, for the years of sickness and
sorrow, devastation ana death. And
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