The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-06-08
|. RADIO AN oUTGRoWTH OF THE WAR

We usually think of the great war a a disaster and as having done an
full if the var did as much harm as good Within the few years it lasted it
resulted in immense benefits to mankind in the tremendous discoveries i'm
provements and advancement of medicine, surgery, chemistry, aeronauucs'
mechanics, engineering, metalurgy and wireless communication, and while
the toll of life the destruction of property, the devastation of lands, the loss
of art and the bankruptcy of nations are all temporary and will 500 be
replaced and forgotten, the scientific progress and discoveries, which were a
direct result of the war will endure forever and will continue to benefit
mankind.
OF all the arts and sciences which received a unprecedented impetus
by the war, none is of greater interest II has a more farreaching effect to
the averagep person than radio telephony. Before the war wireless telegraphy
was well established, universally used and a fairly exact and MISUNDERSTOOD
science; but wireless telephony vas scarcely more than a dream-av visionary.
uncertain thing. complicated LITTLE understood and literally In its Infancy.
But today so incredibly rapid have been the strides made in the develop
ment of thiss science, that wireless telephony is al everyday affair; a simple,
easily understood tbing-far imn1er than taegranhv~and in constant use.
not only commercially, but by countless thousands o. amateurs. In a way,
however. the "a merely launched practical radio telephony o. Its career and
far greater progress has been made in commercaizng, simplifying and cheap
ening it within the past four months-October to February 1921-22-than
within the previous six years. Indeed, sc rapid las been its advancement,
that it seems to have conn upon us almost overnight, and within a few short
weeks it has leaped rom an obscure, scientific curiosity to al almost sniver
sally used means of entertainment and profit
Today thousands of mere boys are using wireless telephones-many of
electrical supply stores and elsewhere sets or receiving may be purchased
for a few dollars. From various stations, music crop reports market reports
and baseball returns; shipping news and countless other interesting matters
are sent broadcast through the air. free to anyone who possesses a wireless
sailor at sea, passengers on ships, guests in hotels crowds bou bulletin
boards and people in their own homes can listen to the voices Of famous men
the music OF bands and orchestras, the singing of famous operate stars, the
dialogues of plays and countless other things from fardstantp points nc IS
clearly and plainly as though n o space interviewed.
Truly, radio telephony is the great modern miracle; a dream more fan
tasdc and fairylike than the Arabian Nights; a more marvellous actualty than
the fabulous lamp of Aladdin Or the flying carpet and best o all it is within
the reach of everyone, while the music in the air. is free to all who care
to listen in
It is certainly a strange, almost incredible. thing TO think that the air
about us, even within u dwellings, is constantly filled with sounds voices
music messages and songs which ar as 1naudlble a they ar invisible Ot
which may be caught and delivered Ito u ears by means of a few wires and
batteries inc a few appliances so simple nat even a child may use her
And IN mi is ar from being reached Wlhn a rev years or even
months, the range of wireless telephony will be increased by hundreds o
even thousands of miles, antennae or aerias will be entirely done away with
and the instruments for sending and receiving Will Do 50 improved smIhneo
and reduced that ne may carry them in ones pocket for while radio. tel
ephony has already become highly perfected, widely used and absolutely prac
tcal, yet it is still hardly ut Of its infancy n no mar may prophesy what
its future may be-