White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-11
THE HOME RADIO
Ho,v ~ MAJ. end IJ.. Il 90 By HYATT vERRnL
l. RADIO AN oUTGRowTH OF THE WAR

We usually think of the great "a as a disaster and As having done IN
ncaculable amount of harm to the world and It's people, but 1t Is very doubt
full If the va did as much harm as good. Within the few years 1t lasted 1t
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 ne the destruction of property the devastation Of lands the loss
Of art and the bankruptcy of natons are all temporary and will soc 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 or has a more arreaching effect to
the average persont than radio telephony. Before the a wireless teIegraphy
science: but wireless telephony was scarcely more than u dream, visionary,
uncertain thing; complicated, little understood and literally In Its infancy.
But today, 50 incredibly rapid have been the strides made In the develop
ment of this science, that wireless telephony Is an everyday affair; a simple,
not only commercially, but by countless thousands Of amateurs In a way,
however, the "a merely launched practical radio telephony oil Its career and
fur greater progress has been made in commercalzhg simplifying and cheap
ening 1t within the past four months-October to February. 192122-than
within the previous six years. Indeed, SO rapid las been Its Advancement
that it seems to have come upon IS almost overnight. and within a few short
weeks 1t has leaped from an obscure, scientific curiosity to a almost univer-
sally used means of entertainment and profit.
Today thousands of mere hoys are using wireless telephones-many Of
for a few dollars. From various stations. music. crop reports. market reports
and baseball returns; shipping new and countless other interesting matters
sent broadcast through the air, free to anyone who possesses a wireless
sailor at sea, passengers IN ships, guests In hotels. crowds about bulletin
boards and people n their homes cal listen TO the voices oil famous men,
dialogues Of plays and countless other things, from fardistant points and as
clearly and plainly as though n o space interviewed.
tasic and fairyiike than the Arabian Nights: a more marvellous actually than
the fabulous lamp of Aladdin or the flying carpet, and best of all, 1t is within
the reach of everyone while the music In the air is free TO all who rare
to listen in
1t is certainly a strange. almost incredible. thns to think that the air
music, messages n ong whch ire as as they IRE invisible, but
which may be caught and delivered TO III ears by means of a few wires and
batteries a lev appliances SO simple thht even a child may Use them
And IN limit Is al from being reached Within "A FEY years or eve
months, the range Of wireless telephony will be increased by hundreds or
ever thousands Of miles, antennae or aerals Will be entirely done away with
and the Instruments for sending m receiyng Will be SO improved simplihed
and reduced that n may carry them In ones pocket, for while radio tel
ephony has already become highly perfected, widely used and absolutely prac-
teal yet it Is still hardly ut II It's infancy and 10 mar may prophesy what
future may be