Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 35

BSCURE SCYENTIST HAS AIDED RADIO Edouard Branly, Who Helped Marconi, Has Worked in Laboratory 25 Years. Br the Associated Press. his hair silver white, every day makes the journey from his house to his lab- eratory, a few hundred yards away. Sun or rain, wind or snow, even on Bundays, he takes the road he has taken for 52 years. His pittance is small, merely that of a professor, not enough to pay for an assistant in his laboratory. Yet there are millions {li throughout the world who owe no small part of their daily enjoyment to the re- searches of this obscure scientist— | Edouard Branly. In 1891 he rad a paper before the French Academy, in which he de- scribed how, with the aid of an electro- static machine in one room, he caused an isolated circuit in another room to: register the passage of a current when | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G ! McNamee '\ My friends in the radio audience will be reading this two days before the big- gest broadcasting event in the history of America. From New York City the results of the presidential election will be sent out over a metwork which, with all associated stations, will reach just about every home in the country where | there is a radio receiver. PARIS—A man of 82, slightly bent, | Here at the studio, it is something like our own world series, with: every- body rehearsing with switches, controis, batteries and all the rest of the trans- mitting machinery being tested and re- fined to a gnat’s heel. Voices are being nursed as carefully as Herb Pennock’s pitching arm. When you think of tell~ ing biy news ke this to 60 or 70 mil- ion people, spraining your voice seems worse than breaking your neck. At home I'm afrald somebody will leave the cover off the sugar bowl and cause a draught. The studio is being fixed up just like a big newspaper office. All the press assoclations will start shooting in their bulletins as soon as the polls close, and there will be a crew of political experts to sort them out, so the public will get he produced a spark in the primary [TOb only these early scattering returns circuit. Nine years later, when Marcon1 transmitted his first wireless message Srom England to France, he sent a tele- gram to M. Branly owledging the part in the new science of radioteleg- raphy the French professor's experi- ment had played. And while symphony orchestras | droadcast their music from town to| town, country to country and continent { to continent the old professor returns every day to the same laboratory, where he made his first simple experiments | and bends his white head over the elec- trical problems that have been the.| fascination of his life. “What do you feel, M. Branly,” he was asked, “when you think of the mil- lions who are listening beneath the great girdle of sound encircling the! earth, listening to music from atar, to ! voices in other lands?” | “What do I feel? Nothing. I am seemng for something eise,” he an- swered. “It is nearly 9 o'clock. I must | be back in my laboratory.” YOUTH MAKES RADIO CONTACT WITH BYRD Cedar Rapids Student Picks Up| Antarctic Party on Homemade Recziving Set. By the Associated Press. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. — Bertram Puckett, 17-year-old Cedar high szhool student. has added communica- tion with the Byrd Antarctic to his ether adventures into far-away places. With a home-made set he first up the Elinor Bolling and the of New York, ships of the Byrd party, while they were near the equator, nu-l ing southward in the Ocean. He | arranged to pick up their call letters regularly. The Boiling operator told Puckett he was the only person he had talked with since the North American shoreline had dropped from sight. Puckett had heard stations in Hawaii, Japan, Moscow, Russia, Berlin, 2nd London. He uses a 75-watt short wave set. He | has been a radio enthusiast about two years. Soon after the ships of Comdr. Rich- ard E. Byrd sailed from San PFrancisco, Puckeit began trying to pick them up. At last hs was able to éatch their cail leiters in the early morning hours. The Bolli jerator .arrangad for Puekett to rel m to friends. He said that as soon as the ship reach- ed the southern ice fields mcssages would be sent regularly. n discussing his radio adventures | come. as they come, but will be told what they mean. Announcing will start at 7 o'clock Eastern Standard time and keep on until the reports for the leading contests are all in. This will be thae first time that a radio studio with a national hook-up has been made a clearing house for_the returns from the entire country, nd its going to take a whole lot of system and some mighty quick action to jug- gle all these bulletins and keep the most important stuff on the air, as the experts pick out the most significant and important material. At the same time, Schenectady and Pittsburgh will be doing some fast short-wave shooting, landing the election results in Europe ond Australia and other countries. Nothing ltke it ever happened before. It makes you feel solemn when you think you have to break bad news to so many millions—for this is going to be bad news for lots of folks, whoever wins. People often ask me why it is that the | whole volume of radio broadcasting is bound from the East to West. Why shouldn’t there be just s many east- bound programs on the =air? Why couldn’t San Francisco and Denver and Omaha, for instance, broadcast their returns to the East, as they come in, in- stead of everything being telegraphed to New York and broadcast from there? ‘This is due to the fact that the tele- phone comvany has not yet develoved a two-way broadeasting circuit—that is, on> wire which will carry programs either east or west. When we send a program on the wire from New York to Chicago, to be broadcast from that city, it goes over a snecislly engineered and balanced wire, capabls of cai 2]l frequencies of volce and music. In Morse telegraphy repeaters allow any number of messages to go back and forth, but the present radio hook-ups allow only the one-way mechanical difficulties can be overcome. It is a question of there be- ing sufficient demand for East-to-West broadcasting to justify additional wires. Tt seems to me that this will eventually d and Detroit, for in- stance, have fine symphony_orchestras ould be Radio has ths 2 doge a m‘gr help different parts of the Paris | country get acqualinted, and it will do a more of a ers lot mors as the West demeand, bigger right along. I haven't any doubt that before many years it will be quite possible for Portland, Oreg. a i Puckett said: “A short time ago I talked with a fricnd whom I meu here ssveral years ego. He is now in the Polynesian isiands, 8,000 miles away. We heard each other as distinctly as if we had only been separated by a few miles.” MAIN ARC ANTENNA H “CHOKE” FEAR FADES Test Means That Arlington and Anaapolis Will Get New Equipment. Tests conducted at the Navy’s high power raaio siation at Annepo.ds inui- cated that th: main arc antenna did not scriously interfere with the trans- mission of a high frequency sot in- stalled at the Annapolis station. It had been feared that the arc would tend to “choke” the high frequency transmitter calibrated to 8,870 and 17,- 149 kilocycles. The results of the tests ‘were reported by the Navy stations at San Francisco, San Diego, Balboa, San Juan and Great Lakes. All stations except Great Lakes received the test signals with “fair” to “good” strength. The tests were made with a view to deciding whether two new transmitters should be installed at Annapolis or Arlington. It has been decided to as- sign one to each station. FADA “30” A.C.ELECTRIC ALNUT console with built- in Fada 4 Speaker, pilo: light, single dial, rejector and phonograph attachment. One of the world’s best radios. Con- venient size—40 inches by 27 nches by 16 inches, Louis & Co. 7th and G Sts. NNW . \ Speaking—" 1| .. to put symphony or a spsech on a national hook-up, with other big programs com- ing, at the same time, from the East. It seems to me that one of the most important things which has ever hap- pened in radio is the series of educa- tional concerts, broadcast to school | |children, by Dr. Walter Damrosch. | | These concerts will reach millions ol | {pupils and later on will reach high| schools and colleges, as well as grade |schools. There are about 125 public | schools in New York City alone which | have radio receiving sets. Dr. Dam-| rosch’s concerts will go over a hook-up | of 25 stations, covering all the Statcs east of the Rocky Mountains. Think of | what it means for all these millions of | school children to hear such composers | as Mendelssohn, Weber, Berlioz and | Glazounow, played by the best artists| of the symphony and philharmonic or- | chestras! | Dr. Damrosch began broadcasting | when we first got microphones into | Carnegie Hall several years ago. splendid little talks at that time were one of the most successful events in the | history of radio. In passing, I want to note that Dr. Damrosch is one of the best radio speakers I have ever known. It is not only what he says, but the quality of his voice, easy, cven| tempo, and his habit of talking simply and directly into the microphone. If you are interested in expert radio an- nuuncingfi just listen carefully to Dr. Damrosch Whenever you have a cnance,l In between my tours, announcing | foot ball games, I am busy at the studio | | helping to get everything set for our | supreme effort Tuesday evening. Pro- | grams are going on as usual, but any | |one could ‘tell that preparations are | {being made for a big event. Engineers and technical men have a way of never | getting excited, which makes me en.y | them. Sometimes they almost drive me crazy by their y-going ways, whea | we are desperately anxious to rush | through scme emergency hook-up, but they always come through on time. Here is a mother, bringing her daugh- | ter, a promising young pianist, to the | studio for her first tryout in radio broadcasting. Both are shaking and | fluttering with excitement. It is the first time they have ever been back- stage in radioland and they don’t scem to know what to make of it. | Old stagers among the artists ere checking over th2 program which will be put on Tuesday, with the election | returns. They take it calmly enough, but, 50 far as th: artists are concerned, | they never seem to quite get over that | moment of buck fever when they face the microphone. Of course the engi-| neers do not have to face, figuratively | at least, an audience of 40,000,000 or | 50,000,000. Maybes if they did they | %%Mfi;fi 2 The 88 Hecht Co. Fcaturcs His | | cludes Stations KJR, KGA, KEX, KYA, FADA RADIO Unother Nusionelly Known Product wouldn’t be so cock-sure about every- thing they do. 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