THE RADIO TELEPHONE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1922, Page 5

THE RADIO TELEPHONE.

AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT. The radio telephone has become a practical, every-day means of communication, available for all manner of purposes, and exceeding by far the wildest dreams of the early workers in this art, says the Scientific American. Radio telephone stations are being installed as rapidly as possible in every leading centre of the United States, for the purpose of sending out new bulletins, baseball scores, stock reports, crop surveys, weather bulletins, sermons, public speeches, and even music. These broadcasting stations, as they are called, are being installed and operated by large manufacturing companies, who are anxious to furnish such service in the positive knowledge that it will increase the demand for radio apparatus. The Government, too, is about to install radio telephone broadcasting stations, which are to replace in whole or at least in part those stations now rendering a similar service in the Morse telegraph code. Already in many an American family the evening’s diversions depend a great deal on the activities of the broadcasting stations. With a loud-speaking telephone on the living-room table, and with a simple receiving set, the members of the family can receive al] the new's that is worthy of widespread attention, followed by a musical programme.