Mountbatten is a Radio Expert

New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 19

Mountbatten is a Radio Expert

I T will probably be news to a good many of our readers that Lord Louis Mountbatten, besides being distinguished in so many other spheres, is also a leading figure in the world of radio-engin-eering. According to an article in the "Sunday Dispatch," Mountbatten began specialising in wireless in 1924 and went to the Naval Signal School. For the next nine years he served as a_ wireless officer, becoming Senior Instructor of the Signal School, Portsmouth, and eventually Fleet Wireless Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet. Very early Mountbatten formed the habit of committing his conclusions to writing. Manuals, pamphlets and books were the result. His friends began by treating this propensity as a joke. But it soon became apparent that the young man with the relish for getting down to it was producing a series of first-class works on a variety of subjects. No sooner had he started on his specialist career than he wrote the first "Manual of Wireless Telegraphy" for non-specialist officers. When he became Senior Instructor at the Signal School he wrote the first technical text-book on naval tadio transmitting and receiving sets, which has been kept up to date and is still the standard work on this subject. ' At the present time Mountbatten is President of the Institute of Radio Engineers (British) as well as an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.