WIRELESS AND RAIN
INFLUENCE NOT CREDITED OPINION OF SCIENTISTS. LONDON. February 13. " Preposterous ” is how a broadcasting official described a suggestion to suspend broadcasting for a month in order to see if it was responsible for the extraordinarily wet weather. He pointed out that the energy expended by the broadcasting stations was negligible, and represented only one-halt per cent, of the total transmitted by nil wireless services. " The proposed experiment would, therefore, bo fatuous, ho said, unless all stations closed down for the same period. Scientists generally do not support the theory that wireless has any effect on the weather.
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Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 10
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100WIRELESS AND RAIN Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 10
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