RADIO WORLD'S FAIR

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 16, 4 November 1927, Page 5

RADIO WORLD'S FAIR

GREAT NEW: YORK BVEMT, Several miflions dollars’ worth of contracts for fadio receivers were placed during the trade houts of the Radio World’s Fair at New York in September, and more than 7500 dealers in radio apparatus have been in attendance, it was announced at radio show headquarters in Madison Square Gar~ den. The equipment purchased will be sent to all parts of the world.A representative of the show said American dealers had declared that the public demand this year was for de luxe receivers in elaborate cabinets, while in foreign countries the demand was for the simpler sets, ire Commissioner John J» Dorman visited the "Theatre of Wonders" at the show. He was especially interested in the balanced photo-electric cell, which utilises the sun’s rays to turn on and off the lighting circuits of city streets, and in devices which automatically sound an alarm when a fire develops, DIVINES RADIO QUEEN'S THOUGHT. Another visitor to the show was Konrad Leitner, Swiss psychologist, whe succeeded in "reading the mind" of the radio queen, Miss Edith Amelia Smith, He readily discovered the hiding place of a small object, it was said, after Miss Smith had secreted it among the 300,000 separate articles on display in the booths of the exposition. Mr. Leit« ner said he learned English by listening to its being spoken over the radio here and in Europe.