WIRELESS TELEPHONE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 20, 19 October 1920, Page 7

WIRELESS TELEPHONE

« WONDERFUL CONCERT IN MELBOURNE. The Queen's Hall, Federal Parliament House, Melbourne, was crowded to witness a demonstration of wireless tek ; 'phony given by Mr. E. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Limited. Promptly at 7 o'clfcck, the hall, the vcstibuV, and tho corridors of the. House were filled with the strains of u band playing "Rule Britannia." No ordinary plioiiograpl ' alone could have produced such a volume of sound, and yet all the character istics of the phonograph were audible even the noise of the needle on the i'e cord could be heard. The music was, in fact, produced by an ordinary cabinet phonograph, such, as one see 9 in hundreds of private houses, and was played m a small room at the Middle Brighton residence of Mr'. L. A. Hooke, Melbourne manager for Amalgamated Wireless Limited After a few phonograph selections the audience were giwn an actual re- , production of tho human voice. Miss L. Walter, a'recent winner of the Melon Scholarship, Jiad imdertnten to sing, and thus enjoyed the privilege of being the first person in Australia, to perform to an unseen audience with HH>- nirt ot wireless. Miss Walker's song was preceded by a pianoforte selection, winch came through with p-rfcet distinctness, aiuLthen a soprano voice was heard rendering "Advance Australia. In the course of a short speech, Mi. Fisk said that only the previous weok they received a message at Federal ia>limnent House direct from Lyons, in France "\ few weeks ago," continued Mr. Fisk, "I enjoyed the honour o permitting one of your Senators to listen from his bedroom in a Melbourne hotel to a message from France. Tlat (?,;n----tleman was astonished at the loudness and clearness of the Morse signals.