The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-17
MILK BY RADIO.
TURNED INTO
BUTTER
Dicgenes Listens In to the
Story Of Mike" an EIec-
tricai Engineer.
By ROBERT j. CASEY,
The Vest Pocket AnthoIoriat.


And into the marts came one Do
genes with flash lamp bewailing
with 2 loud cry that one KunopoS
had sold to him q Bootleg c battery
that there was no honest man in ali
Athens, for that matter in the restau.
rents O. the world, whittier the p1en
ana A ~ ns,. RSo 4 GSe s easT gn
men awaiting the Sis Is Thcrrn6py.
lhe had begin to talk.
It was Ben Hecht. the talented
radio engineer. who first undertook
to broadcast the story Of milk de-
livery via the ether. He did not
make . point about the ether. He
was willing to concede that ir may
have been delivered via the heavy
side layer. But as for the milk he
had read In the Scientific Whoosit
about q Newark genius who hoped
to bring about q radio revolution
In the milk business.
"AH matter Ia made up Of groups
Of electrical charges" he quoted
from memory. Positive whatcha.
callits and negative so.and.sos.
These charges are held together by
some sort Of silly attraction, but
they are in a state of constant
motion.
He'd Split EN- Up.
1T doesn't seem to be much Of n
step TO guess that everything in
nature has it's own Wbratory fire.
quency-its fu n me n al wave
length, as 1t were.
Nobody thinks 1t .odd now that
sound Is split up into segments ana
transmitted through the air on an
electric flash.
, Already the transmission OF pic.
tureS--or Lightly radio Is com.
mon enough performance. WHY.
then may we not split UP other
things into their positive whatcha.
cailits and negative so.and.sos and
transmit them over a magnetic
wave to distant points.
This man was reading about
mas succeeded in broadcasting a
quart OF milk
yes, said the literary person
VINO had not followed him. "And /
oaresay 1t was very disconcerting
Tor toiks In the neighborhood to
get an earful Of milk out Of their
headphones.
), There is no telling what is in
The sad.voiced young scientist
tience.
All Perfectly Simple.
The apparatus was fairly sim.
pie" he said. prof. Whatsisnan ma
OF Newark, used a tremendo,IsIv
high voltage to modulate the milf
6ut Daslcally 1t was the same trick
!nat Is being turned every night
IN any broadcasting station.
me theory Of the thing was no
bound that couldn't help telling
my friends about 1t. And there
was Mike, you know Mike. who
always had q sort Of electrical i'm.
Mike was convinced right away
that this would be a great thing
no milkman, no deposit of 5 cents
bottle with the delicatessen; moth.
ing but milk delivered on a piece Of
clean wire. He tried It and-well.
there's no doubt its going to be 4
great thing for the coxs ana every
He actually worked IT."
Wen. yes, and no. You see. he
uidn,t have the high voltage so he
sHvuBut TO run the modulatAd milk
from the filament of the tube To
the plate by sending it through ths
storage battery first. He poured
II into a dry-charged battery ana
tnen dumped the electrolye on tor.
ne broadcast the milk all rirht
OUT the results were bit local"
Turned Into Butter.
-. But he received it on his set?"
Tns INQUIRER had become excited
that's the peculiar part Of n
said the sad-faced young scientist
tbs set Is a Whizzer reflex ana
the milk got stirred up 40 rcinS
PACK and forth through the fnhas
tnat the loud speaker was fun ~
creamery butter" -" -
Dogenes, the philosopher, vaita6 "a
T IE no more. He threw away hiS
n1.. sr and horned In: as"
say, Fellows" he said. "a,a 49,.
s .na you how tune out local statscr.
snd get Los Angeles On thS iomS
spT@ker ana one tube?" '"Uu
that ne 20 didn't listen. They had heard
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