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RADIO'S LIVEST MAGAZINE irugazt 211Ceryta ,nfr riti Ca, HUGO GERNSBACK Editor TELEVISION NEWS SERVICE See Page 74 New Television Developments- "Pee -Wee" Multi -Range Meter- Beginner's "2" Lee DeForest - Sanabria -Pries: - Goldsmith - Don Lee-Peck - Farnsworth OVER 200 ILLUSTRATIONS AL*4\.. It is no longer necessary to save 189 SIGNAL GENERATOR money to buy a SUPREME. Get the Supreme 189 Signal Generator - both modu- instrument now and pay for it on lated and unmodulated - sell- contained 400 the easiest possible terms while you cycle audio oscillator - unusual frequency use it. Ask your Parts stability through special electron- coupled Jobber or write circuit - carrier frequencies directly cali- the factory about the S. I. C. Easy brated. Only $4.00 DOWN and $3.66 PER Payment Plan. Everybody's doing MONTH. it! EXPORT DEPT., ASSOCIATED EXPORTERS CO., 145 W. 45th STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y., CABLE ADDRESS: LOPREH. N. Y. 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T.z Associate Editor Associate Editor 7*SERVICE MAN DEALER RADIOTRICIAN R. D. WASHBURNE, Technical Editor :11111111111 CONTENTS -AUG., 1936, ISSUE Volume VIII Number 2 Short -Cuts in Radio 87 Making a Midget Multi- Purpose Meter..H. G. McEntee 88 Editorial: Television Problems Hugo Gernsback 69 The Opto- Mechanical System of Television Wm. Hoyt Peck....88 The Radio Month in Review 70 Operating Notes 89 What About Television? W. E. Schrage 72 t Electronic Music Fundamentals-Part IV..Edward Kassel 90 New Developments in Television R. D. Washburne 74 A French Television System Marc Chauvierre 91 High- Intensity Illuminants in Television 91 Dr. Lee deForest 76 A Dual- Modulated Beat Signal Generator..E. L. Garrett An Improved Television Camera Philo T. Farnsworth 92 Television on the West Coast Don Lee 76 Modern Test Equipment V Radio Pictorial 77 The Design of -Part Samuel C. Milbourne 92 International Radio Review 78 How to Make an Oscilloscope-Part II The Importance of Interlaced Scanning..U. A. Sanabria 79 Charles Sicuranza 93 Mechanical vs. Cathode -Ray Systems of Television A Cathode -Ray Film Scanner A. Stager 94 William H. Priess 79 Making a Precision Aligning Unit -Part III Television as Home Entertainment Canio Maggio 94 Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith 80 Readers' Dept. 95 A New Variable- Attenuation Equalizer The Latest Radio Equipment 96 S. Floyd Stewart 80 High -Fidelity Wired Sound N. H. Lessem 81 RADIO -SERVICE DATA SHEETS: The "Elf " -A 2 -Tube Set for the Beginner C. W. Palmer 82 No. I72- Zenith Model 7M9I 7 -Tube "Safety" Auto The "Transceptor " -A New Idea in 5 -Meter Trans- Superheterodyne; ceivers Frank Lester 83 Howard 6 -Tube Series I Auto Superhet 98 No. I73 Victor Model 236 -B 7 -Tube Battery Television in Germany Karl Tetzner 83 -RCA Superhet. Receiver; The Latest Radio Tubes. 84 Midwest Model 14-37 14 -Tube All -Wave Superhet. 99 How to Install a Wired Audio P.A. System -Part I No. 174 -Belmont Model 522 5 -Tube 2 V. Battery E. A. Dennis 84 Superheterodyne; Reflections of a Radio Service Man's Wife Belmont 666 6 -Tube Superhet. Auto -Radio Receiver IDI Aileen lodice 85 ORSMA Members' Forum 100 Television Progress in Italy 86 Book Reviews 121 ANNUAL SET BUILDER'S NUMBER New tube developments and new circuit tricks have in- Also, the usual departments will be carried, plus interesting trigued the set builders who have written articles for the construction and technical articles for the Service Man. forthcoming issue of RADIO -CRAFT. Small sets, medium Public address specialists will also find that their interests sets and large sets will be described for the man who wants have been taken care of. Ask your newsdealer today to to do his own construction work. Sets will be included for reserve for you a copy of this Sept. (newsstands -Aug. 1) both beginners and old timers. 1936 issue of RADIO -CRAFT. I I I I I , HUGO GERNSBACK, President I. S. MANHEIMER, Secretary RADIO-CRAFT is published monthly, on the first of the month preced- Published by Continential Publications, Inc. Publication office: 29 ing that of date: subscription price is $2.50 per year in U. S. and Can- Worthington Street, Springfield, Mass. Editorial and Advertising ada. (In foreign countries, $3.00 a year fo cover additional postage.) second -class matter Office: 99 Hudson Street, New York City. Chicago Advertising Entered at the post office at Springfield as 1879. Office: L F. McClure, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. under the act of March 3, Western Advertising Office: Loyd B. Chappell, 511 So. Alexandria St., Los Angeles, Calif. Text and illustrations of this magazine are copyright and must not be European Agents: reproduced without permission of the copyright owners. We are also EVERYDAY SCIENCE AND MECHANICS. 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