RADIO MARVELS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 16

RADIO MARVELS

GREAT PREDICTIONS The next generation may live in } homes lighted and heated by power transmitted through radic beams. Instead of to-day’s furnaces and small power plants for each home industry or community the power of to-morrow may be generated in a few gigantic stations, scattered strategically over the globe. From them it will go surging through the ground and the air to be tapped by an aerial or a grounded wire at any point, to drive airplanes, automobiles, and trains, provide heat and light and operate factories Many At Work On Idea, Such is the possibility pictured by ummer N. Blossom, editor of "New York Popular Science Monthly," in discussing the recent success of Dr. Phillips Thomas, Westinghouse research etigineer, in lighting an electric lamp by radio power in a demonstration before the New York Electrical Society While a group of engineers watched Dr homas raised in his hand an electric licht bulb. To it was attached a four-foot copper rod. A short distance awav a radio vacuum tube was turned en-and instantly the bulk glowed brilliantly *"\ few months aso," said Mr. Blossom, "no one dreamed that soon yon would he able to see by radio-vet now we have television! Will radio power be tle next gereat invention? Manv etlentists are at work on it to-dav-end at anv moment it mav be realised on a practical seale | Power By Radio. : The jdea of transmitting power with. ont wires is not new Heinrich, TWertz, ) fliscoverer of radio waves, tested its pos-