The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05
BY a. LEONARD SMITH. JR.
In tho New York Times.

Although radio telephony and its
phraseology. broadcasting, aerial an-
| tennue and wave lengths. are almost
Hs common topics Of conversation
! today as the Eighteenth amendment.
Onc-half Of I per cent. ana Mr.. Vol
stead, II IL extremely hard. even yet,
to write In popular terms about this
/ baby OF the sciences and its extraor-
dinarily rapid growth.
We know that great radio corpora
| tlons have already established
plants from which each night are
sent broadcast out through tho air
overhead grand opera. light Iopern,
sermons, market reports. az well as
chlldren's bedtime stories. The rem
diti0n OF this ether program can be
heard by any one who fastens "a set
OF radio telephone receivers to his
or her ears, or who can get within
range OF one OF tho large horns
with which some OF the radio rcceiy-
ing stations are equipped.
From estimates given by these
same corporations we know that
there are today approximately 70O.-
600 American homes, J schools
churches. halls and office buildings
equipped as receiving stations. More
than 800 stations have been
licensed by the United States govern
ment for transmitting wireless mes
sages OF one sort or another. Much
of the popularity Of the whole thing
has come In the last two or three
months, during which time, II II
said, about 100000 receiving sets
have been installed.
Take up tho headplece OF n radio
receiving set and listen a minute. on
n small wave length. using little
power, the wireless brings you an
amateurs experimental chatter as
he plays with his wonderful! new toy.
With "A thousand times the speed Of
any wind Chat ever blew Ii bears the
recital OF poetry or nelghborhOOd
gossip straight 20 the delighted ears
Of some other enthusiast who. when
the experiment is over, will you may
be sure, check up with his friend on
every point on a higher wave
length 800 meters, In fact. come the
bnnd concerts. the grand opera arihs
ana all the features of the prOfcs-
sional stations' nightly program. In
crease the wave length Hill more
ana you get into the realm ruled by
the crash OF the wireless Fpsra
hurling It's code signals from the
'"h ff"N'N HlhAlbu near l1rfllU or
from the big British plant In the
bleak Welsh hills near Carnnrvon 10
Deal Beach, New Brunswlck. Tuck
ert0wn or Arlington In this country
Through u all. 10 Rrea ter or less
degree. runs n continuous humming
or buzzirg that sometimes rattlca
ana crackles 30 loud M 10 drown ont
completely whatever signals you lis
ton for.
what are those noises" you ask
the operator In bewilderment
lie listens moment. "It's old
Man Static" hG tells you Then.
az you look even more blank, he
shrugH his shoulders. you know as
much as dO,' he says
Noises Of Space.
or course he refers 10 static cleo
trlciy and sou are fascinated
though trifle awestruck, 10 realize
mat you are listening 70 sonnds that
surely we're never intended 10 b.
heard b. human being The deli
cate mechanism 0f the radio has
caught and brought % the ears Of
us earth dwcllers tho noises that
roar In the space kftwcen the worlds
The sounds ranR FROM an actual
whistle In the region Ot the Aurora