NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

Shannon News, 2 December 1927, Page 4

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

Canada, a country of vast areas and sparse population, lends itself to the fullest utilisation of broadcasting, and there are today over 400,000 receiving sets in operation. It has some SI broadcasting- stations all of which are operated by private or commercial interest; for indirect advertising or publicity in one form or another.

Electrical pick-ups for use in conjunction with granmphone records and valve, amplifiers ar e now being marketed by many British and American manufacturer:?. The application of electrical technique to gramophone recording has brought about a remarkable improvement in gramophone reproduction. It certainly seems logical to suppose that to take full advantage of the new recordings electrical methods oi reproduction offer the greater possibilities, provided always, of course, that the valve amplifying systems and loud speakers, used are capable.of distortionless re-' production. Speaking of wireless inventions recently, Mr M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company of America, said: "We know for a certainty that big things are just around the' corner. We expect we shall livo to see motion pictures flashed on the w'alls of our homes. Science may even find a way to break down food into electrons and transmit them to our kitchens by radio, and there reassemble them for nourishment. This sounds like wild nonsense at the moment, but,.the radio itself seemed like nonsense only a couple ot decades ago." Last month a Radio Olympia was held in London and a British wireless journal just to hand indicates the successful nature of the exhibition. It is estimated that just under 80,000 paying visitors passed through the turnstiles in the first week. The striking feature was said to be the reduction in prices of practically all British wireless sets and parts. Pictures of the receiving sets exhibited show that American practice is being closely followed. Single control, shielded sets seem to predominate. -It is of interest that a 5000 watt broadcasting plants, which, according to photographs, is an exact replica of 2YA Wellington, was exhibited as the latest in broadcasting transmitters.