Radio Pioneer
+VERY time you turn on your radio and it behaves, not like the celebrated set in Much-Binding, but as
every well-cared-for radio should behave, a small bow in the direction of Lancaster would be quite proper. It was there, just on 105 years ago, that Sir Ambrose Fleming first saw the light of day. Fifty-five years later-which is just half a century ago-Sir Ambrose made the first thermionic valve and so laid the foundation of radio as we know it today. He didn’t leave it at that, either, for he helped to develop the valve and to make it the important instrument it has become. Among the developments it made possible was radio broadcasting -for communication by wireless was possible only on a limited scale before it was invented. It is also the foundation stone of electronics. The thermionic valve takes more than five and a half pages to describe in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and for the layman _ it’s pretty heavy going at that; but those who would like to know more about it and about its importance in radio should tune to one of the YA or YZ stations at 9.15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 23, when the 50th anniversary of the invention of the valve will be marked by a talk in Science Commentary by W. L. Harrison, Chief Engineer to the NZBS.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 24
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227Radio Pioneer New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 24
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