Evening star., 1943-04-07
De Forest Forecasts
Postwar Boom in
Use Of Te|evision
Father Of Rodio' Says
Radios Possibilities
Are Still Untopped
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. April 7.-White-
haired Lee De Forest, father of
radio sees in the postwar future
Television taking a spurt" faster
than radio did after the last war;
stations in every good-sized town
offering nightly changes of film pro-
grams; families enjoying two-foot-
square television images in their
parlors. -.
Adjustment of Office and factory
epldemlcs of colds and snif1es with
ultra violet light, which will kill
germs in the air. :.
Plane pilots unhampered by the
thlckest fog, setting their ships down
smoothly by means of landing beams
and altimeters that show above.
ground altitude to the foot. :.
Opened Radio Vistas.
Mr.. De Forest in 1906 gave the
world the three element radio vacu-
UNI tube, opening up the vistas of
broadcasting. cross-country an d
cross-ocean telephony. television and
sound movles-and has lived to see
four fortunes slip from him.
But at SO, the pink-cheeked scien-
tlf1c genius is membittered. vigorous
and enthusiastic. He is busy now
manufacturing short wave dia-
thermy machines for the Navy.
There is something ironic in this
the inventor of the radio tube that
made possible voice communication
between the worlds death-dealing
planes, tanks and ships now building
llfe-saving. health-giving devices for
naval hospitals and ship bays. Mr..
De Forest says they're beneficial in
a wide variety of ailments from
arthrltls to pneumonia, emitting
radio waves that warm affected It's
sues and bones and dilate capillaries
so the blood stream can carry away
accumulated poisons.
Makes Own Tubes Again.
To make his machines, Mr.. De
Forest has had to turn once more,
because of military priorities. to the
manufacture of the radio tubes he
Notwithstanding in which he
hasn't had direct hand since he
sold his interest in the De Forest
Co. 20 years ago.
In his modest lee De Forest
Laboratories on sWank Wiltshire
boulevard, vacuum pumps clatter
and employees form l0-inch radio
tubes of molten glass on a Whirring
Ia the Whom vt-nrl-oT
elements of tube to binding in
candescence with unseen radio waves
from a copper coil MI. De Forest,
with the exhuberance of an amateur
experlmenter, eXclaims, Isn't that
magic!"
Sitting at his magazine Uttered
desk, before workbench streVn
with glass cylinders and metal
parts, the shIrt-sleeved inventor
speaks eagerly of the future.
Sees TeIevision Network.
Il have some ideas on television
I want to get at when the wars
over. he says. "Television will be
the primary source of home enter
talnment. Eventually there will be
network OF televiS!on transmitters
Before that. however, individual
stations will broadcast film pro-
grams, passing the films from city
to city as motion pictures are now.
For the most part. the limit of
the size Of the television picture in
the home is now eight by 10 inches.
But even now it is possible to have,
projected pictures say two feet
square. The television receiver will
cost not less than $3.50 and range
up to $500.
Developed New Altimeter.
I'm bacteriology, too, there Is
great future. In large commercial
institutions contagious colds will be
done away with. There will be
largescale application of the device
now used In some banks, where
quartz tube over the tellers' windows
sends down an invisible barrier of
ultra violet light that kills germs