The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-05
Radio Ripples
Edited by
Leslie A.Gorlld


over the city radio broadcasting
waves.
'sListen in''-you'n hear things,
Man dies of gas while listening in
radio receiver and writes sensa-
tionst till unconscious. Latest, very
latest. method of quietly passing
'stumping made easy for the po-
litical candidates by use of Radio
sit back in easy-chair and MARBLE
Less effort fort than ever to promise;
of all forms of entertainment. Keeps
the kiddies (and hubby. tool out of
mischief. Rducates them; entertatns
radio Magazine last month was
certainly '-choked" with good things
for the 'fbugs'' to lap up That
and is improving in leaps and bounds.
Wireless Magazine" and 20. r.
s." are growing in popular favor, and
have most excellent material for both
novice and natured operators
Lets start a. drive to place radio
receivers in every hospital in the U.
3, SO all patients may enjoy the Won
ders Of this great modern develop
ment.
The cost would not be great-if
handled sensibly.
do magnet wire is generally recog-
ed as about the best obtainable. An
Empress of old China watched a silk
worm spinning its cocoon and sue
ceeded in reeiing it and thus started
the silk industry.
Fire ReguIations-The fire COM
missioners say they prefer a light
ming or safety gap to the simple
switch on account OF the element of
carelessness in leaving switch ''on''
constantly. Have your ground wire
as short as possible. not smaller than
No. copper insulated; is better
Use porcelain conduits where lead-in
wires pass into building, and keep all
wiring inches from buildings at all
outside points. Transmitting stations
must look up the code, as there are
many other restrictions for send
ing.
The Hertzian wave was discovered
by Hertz, om1nercialiZed by Marconi
monopoIized by the Radio Corp But
it was perfected by the amateur ex-
perimenter.
Trains will soon have aeria1s and
plug-in jacks at every seat-an the
comforts of the parlor while en- route.
Pocket receivers will enable every
tourist to listen I'M along the line.
Oh, boy, what a wonderful world
we're living in
between your headfoneS and your sig
nails will be better
The peculiar cracking heard in the
has been discovered to Completely
overcome it, even in the highest pric-
ed outfits: Summer 'atmospher-
les is the bane of Radio-but be sat
isf1ed; wireless is only an infant. and
a year or more will show a gigantic
giant, which will either enguf us to
he IN due time tanned to our beck and
call as the obedient servant it should
be.
Paul Cooley, of inter-continental
fame, says that soon we shall
have such perfection in construction
that we may "tune in with Scot
land for a while, hear music from
Los Angeles for a spell, and listen to
some political "heeIer'' in Washington,
all within the hour, at will, while
leaning back in that comfy armchair
at home and turning a few knobs
Wired wireless is in the max
ings," whereby We'll have a COM
munity aerial for city or town, and
any number of persons may attach
socket and "get the music
That V. TIFF you don't burn out
n couple of v. t. S. when you first be
:'cuss," that's all. It's only after the
amateur ruins one or two that he dis
covers what a delicate instrument it
fact that to get maximum results the
current must be carried through the
tube on the border of the danger
point. The controls must be man
And Gloom chases Joy out Of the
Observation-Disclosures, $3.50.
A device which can be charged
with electricity is called a ''condens-
err 1t requires longer to charge
a large surface than a small one. SO
by varying surface to be charged we
condenser having a variable surface is
termed a variable condenser. See.
How to Make" Department
A New Dance, the Two Slide Tuner.
And now we are to dance the ''ra-
dio drift II was debated whether
the new dance or the new style of
dancing should be named "the lead
in the detector Dip the two slide
tuner" or 1.-The long wave but the
name radio drift seems to have
setting this dance in motion say the
long wave, or the radio drift, is slow
er than the shimmy. but loses none of
Time moves fast in dancing. The
toddle, which lately held the center
of the stage, or the whole ballroom
Some folks can remember when the
cake-wal6, the bunny-hug and GER
tain ''gNdes' were all the rage. Some
memories may go back to the tango
strong and intensive minds that hold
IL remembrance the twinkhng bobby
old waltz. the schottisch lancers, pol
Ba and redowa, but that was a long
time ago.
VIII Radiophone Chase Out jazz?
VIII Enthusiasm for Radio lift
Youlb to Higher Levels?
We wonder If the deep interest
taken in. Radio will be a cure, for
today seems to have shot off at the
angle, and in their recklessness they
haVc drought about the hysteria of
iaz5 music zzpdliiosophy, character
ICED by fatalism indifference and i'm
morality We shall be glad to see
the passing OF the jazz with its wierd.
discordant sounds and the passing be
so good that it will find no place in
the future of America It's going
win be FASTENED as young America is
turning from the frivolous to more
serious thought.
Steam Radiator Used as Aerial latest
Hir Takes FfaCe with Bed
Springs and Fish Poles
The latest scheme for receiving
Radio messages involves the use of a
good steam radiator, or a hot-water
radiator, for that matter, according
to a report, reaching the Radio sec
tio1 of the Army. This system. said
to have been evolved and tested out
Satisfactorily by a former electrical
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