The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-06-07
THE HOME RADIO
How IN Make and IJse Tt 90 By A. HYATT VERRILL
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RADIO AN oUTGRoWTH OF THE WAR
By A. HYATT VERRlLL
Cnnvrfght hv Harrrr A lrothara

We usually think of the great war a a disaster and as having done Al
mcalculable amount Of harm to the world and its people, but it is very doubt
full if the IA did is much harm as good. Within the few years it lasted it
resulted in immense benefits to mankind in the tremendous discoveries, I'M
proVements aa usahceneht OF medicine, surgery, chemistry. "naute
mechanics, engineering, metanurgy and wireless communication. and while
the toll of life, the destruction of property. the devastation of lands. the loss
Oh art aha IN nanhiuPtcy OIL nation are all temporary and VIII soon BE
replaced and forgotten, the scientific progress and discoveries, which were o
direct result of the war will endure forever and will continue to benefit
mankind.
OF all the arts and sciences which received IN unprecedented impetus
by the war; none is of greater interest or has a more farreaching effect to
the average person than radio telephony. Before the ar wireless teegraphy
was well established, universally used and a fairly exact and welunderstood
science; but wireless telephony wa scarcely more than a dreanr-a visionary,
uncertain thing; complicated, little understood and literally in its infancy.
of this science, that wireless telephony is n everyday affair; n simple
easily understood tiing-far simpler than teleerophyEand in constant use.
not only commercially, but by countless thousands of amateurs. In a way,
however, the merely launched practical radio telephony OF its career and
far greater progress has ben made in ommoreial7fn shmnlifyng and cheop
ening it within the past four months-October to February. 1921+22-than
within the previous six years. Indeed, so rapid has been its Advancement
that it seems to have com upon u almost overnight and within a few short
weeks it has leaped from an obscure scientific curiosity to an almost unNer
sally used means of entertainment and profit.
Today thousands of mere boys are using wireless telephones-many of
electrical supply stores and elsewhere sets for receiving may be purchased
for a few dollars. From various stations music crop reports market reports
ore sent broadcast through the mir rec 70 anvone wmo nossesses n wireless
telephone receiving set Thus. the farmer, miles from the nearest town, the
hoards and ne,n1a in heir own homes e@n listen TO The yocos of fomeus NOR
the music of bands and orcheSras the singing of famous operate stars, the
dialogues of plays and countless other things. from fardiaant points and as
clearly and plainly a though n space interviewed.
Truly, radio telephony is the great modern miracle; a dream more fan
tasic and fanylike than the Arabian Nights a more marvellous actually than
the fabulous lamp of Aladdin or the flying Carpet, and, best of all, it is within
the reach OF everyone, while tn music in thu air. is free to all h care
to listen in.
1t is certainly a strange, almost incredible, thing to think that the air
about is, wen within our dwellings, is constantly filed with sounds, voices,
music, message and song which re as naudibe as they are invisible, but
which may be caught and delivered to our ears by means o. Il few wires and
batteries and a few appliances 70 simple that wen a child may USE them.
And the limit is ar rom being reached. Within a fey years or even
months, the range of wireless telephony will be increased by hundreds or
and the instruments fol sending and receiving will be so improved simphhed
and reduced that one may carry them in one pocket, for while radio tel
teal yet it is still hardly ot of its infancy INT no man may prophesy what
its future nay be-.