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Radio Times, July 24th, 1925. ____ DAVENTRY: THE WORLD'S GREATEST STATION. | i pegee iow pe} cok = eet rr { j _ . ARog hit : 2)atl Suwa = aE A oe oe [SEAT = 4 ee om eta i ba pet fnnen Fea 7 , Otago ean) - ree, hol Awr oe i ' Oras ie LELGS -a Broa ibao 7 HE ‘int heey1h, OF eiaas] SS4NCVESFE& BNE FEFret ee ey ae Loweory ae t=| a] i BOAAnoo ree ae eter —— gy ERR my f ; ia NFA THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OFTHE Bott. Karatsite al at the _Vol. 8.“No.96 : LEO ate Apes EVERY|FiRIDAY. Two Pence. ee == ——— OFFICIAL The Far Future of Radio. PROGRAMMES By Professor A. M. LOW. for the week commencing [Professor Low is one of the most notable similar at an-carly ee ¥; ae aah. authorities om wireless, and he is the inventor stage Of their ex- al the wireless-controlled aeroplane and torpeda. istence, arch it is He is particularly interested in the futare of mankind, and in his latest book, ‘‘ The Future, not Many Pears MAIN STAT IONS. he predicts marvellous changes that are to come. azo that people LONDON, CARDIFF, ABERDEEN, GLAS- The following article, giving his views on were “burnt ‘ative GOW, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, future of broadcasting, will read with interest for their. convic- by every listener] BOURNEMOUTH, NEWCASTLE; tion that the BELFAST. ROBABLYthe most remarkable thing workl was Hat. about radio broadcasting (15 the HIGH-POWER STATIONS. Many unfortunate extraordinary speed with which it has Individuals (Daventry and Chelmsford.) conquered the prejudice of the public suflered a. simi- RELAY STATIONS, and raised itself to the status of a national lar death because, service, Nearhy all advances which are SHEFFIELD, PLYMOUTH, EDINBURGH, on the most cir- made in the progress of civilization are cumstantial ¢vi- Profesor A. Mi. LOW. LIVERPOOL, LEEDS—BRADFORD, due to a demand for more’ comfort and HULL, NOTTINGHAM, STOKE-ON- dence, they were TRENT, DUNDEE, SWANSEA. the more rapid conveyance of thought. reported occasionally to turn themsclycs ———— al = SE lf, therefore, we adopt these principles as =. into rabbits! responsible for the public—I almost said + r] tr * SPECIAL CONTENTS. communal—snecess. of radio, we may These remarks are ne wild fight of the MARCHING SONG OF THE MARINES. be able to visualize, with considerable imagination, but can be checked by a reler- * A Life On The Ocean Wave.” By A. B. Cooper. accuracy, the changes that must come. ence to the Law Court records of a few # + ** centuries ago, Let us, then, grasp, that STRAIN. WIRELESS TO FIGHT NERVE It is not uncommon to read to-day of above all we are to-day In a period of the remarkable scientific discoveries which transition and that in this state we shall FIXING WAVE-LENGTHS. have been made during the past thirty for ever remain. years, and it is almost necessary in some = = + - LONDON TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. cases to solind a warning as to the nature To the man of the future we shall appear By Lord Gerald Wellesley. a of science and as to the part it is playing asignorant savages. He will laughingly OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. in our daily lives. Science exists largely inform his children, when he can spare as an effort to explain the everyday inci- the time to see them, that we used to PEOPLE YOU WILL HEAR THIS WEEK. dents of the universe. We must be careful tear the fiesh of animals with our teeth et to avoid the word "facts for these are and that, by the expenditure of many LISTENERS’ LETTERS. merely. matters of general opinion and hundreds of horse wer, we could depend only too often upon the number occasionally talk to people over long IMPORTANT TO READERS. uf people who happen to believe that distances — weather, sunlight, thunder: The eddreat of "The Radio Times "in §-11, S0atham piea “something is obvious.” storms, and other stations permitting. Street, Strasd, London, WC2. f a + 7 i The address of the British Broadcasting Company, L * # * * ia 2, Savey Hill, Strand, Loudon, W.C.2. ae as The mind of the civilized human being The early days of wireless are within RATES =sumeroroe te The Redo Times “ is not vastly better than that of a dog. the memory of most of us. In that sher! _ foweludia ihead — (Foreign), 153. 8d. Twelve ihe iseisish) : A dog and a man are by no. means dis- (Continued overleaf.) 4 190 —-_ RADIO TIMES -—- tonneaarn, 1525, Fhe Far ‘Pature of Radio Wireless by the Sea. (Continued from the previous page.) time, the miracles of commuiieetion, which the gramophone and radio is that with the By Robert Magill, bein over a few hondred yards, hay become former we wait monthe while a record ia made HK burting question of the moment ig accepted ; ao vommon i¢ it thit we are no and hear it months after it has left the lips of tha: ™ Ought we to take 4 hroliclasy froin longer intercated in the method, but spend our the speaker, while radio gives us the living radio?" Now, [ ara not getting tired of wire. time iti orpticiving the result, word a few millionths of a second after it less. There are mony reasons why IT do net lt may be to-morrow, or it may be in twenty has left the lips of the singer, That is the listen whilst shaving ; one being the diffic ality years time (tmeertainty ia-one of the beauties whole difference Letween wireless to-day and of feiting of the mew sctenco of radio), but the tinin i4 the songs of yesterday. Jt is nothing but a é clean sweep round the ears while wearing head-phones, and another that London bound to come when the real selectivity proceas of speeding up, nothing but another Sinton doesn’t get up ao carly as Ide. Other. obtainahs: by beam and short wave trankmis- demonstration of the fact that time and its wise, 1 listen whenever I] ean; bot I sion, will be accomplished. relative effects are the basis of our lives, am begin- Eclectivity is practically unknown in its trie minige to wonder whether you can have almost Broadcasting Smell and Touch. too moch of o good thing. eonse to-day. We expend great power in atnd- Brivdcasting enginecra in the future will not Last year; on our holiday, we were haunted ing out cur messages and ott music in all ie able to say that a special voice is needed for hy radio, My wife waa eo enthusinstic that directions, and a few miles from a broadcast Wireless: |t is the wireless that must be altered instead of asking what the fom in the hecarclicnige station, far distant signals con seldom be read and tert the toltves: we must be able to wee all house would be like, and feeling the beds to see with obsolute satisfartion, oor senses in listening and vietelizing what is if they had hair mattresses, she went from Jand- Ignorance and Fopularity. going on. The special microphone installed hy lacy to larcilody until ahe found ia place with a It is our very ignorance of the art of wireless the British broadcasting stations is a proof of valve set insteml of a crystal, that has made broadcasting 40 popular and so this state of affairs : it has shown that the repri- Melody at Meal-times, effective during the first few years of its existence, duction of the tricks of voior aro vitally im- Trie, the terma were high, but, as Mrs. With the simplest apparatus, with a piece of portant, and it has at last shown us that H in the Slimmens explained, melody at mealtimes made coal, a needle, a pair of telephones and a few future we cannot broadesst. smelle and the people eat more, and TD was staggered when | yards of wire, a schoolboy can pick up several elects of contact, we must at least be able to saw the bill; ‘There were not the wewal oxrtras stations, While radio is without real secrecy, transmit sight by commercial television, for cold baths ancl candics, Instead, I bined to and without absolute necuraecy of tune, we can- This 4 not a question of the fat future; it is not eiate that wehave made vast strides. Who fear at hand; my. sixpene: extra every, might the Savoy Bande were on the progragime, ard nine. to-lay wile) Gare to trust some confidential There will be nothing extraordinary in the menée for De Groot! spoken word to wireless ? fond mother -of the future listening and seeing a Nevertheless, on a wet eyqning it was very We have only to picture an advance along tO her children ot play from one side of the world comforting to bave somethinto do, although the lines of ee hoc ivity fo. 9d Boe Important to the other, The more senaca we can convey toa the other boarders were changes that the {nture will bring. In the first distance, the more we redvee the need for bodily veritabe beesencll-“pha. hoge. However, this had ite counsolations, wien place, the number of stations and the number travel. vou conmaicder the fatuious CONVErsATon oft moat of broadesst programmes aont out will be t- Even smell and touch may one day people in seaside boardiig establishments, erensed. The tec of beam. transmission, quite be broncht tor our minds, for though) itself is-an strangely enough, they did not boast, as tena, valves: in oerther electrical process, and the ether is a converiient possibly without the need for af their ecoial importance whet at home.