The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-21
Radiogralrls

Chicago.
Z. f. w. Alexanderson. an cleo
trical engineer, has been working on
new horizontal polarized radio
wave to eliminate static and fading.
Ten examiners are now constantly
employed in the United States Pat
ent Office in considering and acting
upon applications for further pat
ents on improvements in the radio
field
England is planning a new high
power radio station at Winthorpe,
near Skegness. on the east coast
This station. when completed. is ex-
pected to be used for communica-
tons with Australia and India.
Gerald Marcuse, an amateur radio
operator in Caterham, England, says
he has talked from his home with
radio operator on board the United
States cruiser Seattle while the YES
sci was approaching Australia, vir.
tually half way around the world.
S. r. Kimball, a rancher in San
Fernandino Valley, California, re-
Gently placed an order with an I'M
dertaker in Los Angeles for a 81. 200
steel coffin equipped with a radio
receiving set. KimbaI explained
that he is convinced that the soul
fingers near the body until the day
of judgment, and that he will be
able to hear what is going on in
the world" after he dies.
A new 100000 hotel will be built
in Atlantic City N j., with a radio
in each of the 1000 bedrooms.
Esperanto has been adopted by the
International Amateur Congress as
the official international radio Ian
: guage.
Plans have been completed to
make the Daventry radio station in
England the clearing house for a
| great system Of international broad
/ casting.
Frank Stoop of Spokane, Wash:
in looking for a house best suited
for radio reception. searched more
he found the right place.
| Receiving sets are to be distribut-
ed by British missionary to natives
in the South Sea Islands. Cocoanut
palms, eighty to ninety feet high,
are to be used for aerial masts.
A new insignia for United States
naval radio electricians, until recent
ly classified as gunners radio. in the
form Of "a jagged spark" has been
adopted for uniform wear.
Canada has 56,O63 licensed radio
receiving sets. Ontario leads all the
provinces with a total of 2S,507
There are eighty-seven on Prince
Edward Island: twenty-five in Yu-
kon, and five in the Northwest ter
ritories.
There are two microphones in the
Vatican in Rome-one at the great
altar where the Pope celebrates mass
and another at the papal throne
from which the Pope delivers the
benediction.
| According to an American radio
expert, radio may make English the
language of the world.
Six out of every ten music stores
in the United States handle radio
sets along with the musical instru-
ments.
Radio transmitting sets are to be
installed on the motor lifeboats Of
all British liners.
Within thirty miles of Chicago
there are more radio stations than
there are in the whole United King
dom.
One Of the latest marvels of wire
less is music played by a London
orchestra crossing the Atlantic to
Pittsburg, returning to England and
heard again by the director of the
orchestra standing near his bands
men.
Station WGMU is built on the rear
of passenger automobile and is
sent to sporting events, where the
announcer describes the race from
his position a few feet from the fin
ish line. The home of WGMU is
Richmond Hill, N. Y.
John p. Buckley. scientist of the
| u. S. Bureau of Standards, has con-
structed a crystal radio set which
he claims can be built for go cents.
The set is principally composed of
two small boards around which are
wound the tuning coils.
The new British radio station at
Rugby has twelve masts with electric
lifts to carry men to the tops in
fifteen minutes. The masts are sup
ported on porcelain insulators and