IMMORTAL RADIO WAVES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 15

IMMORTAL RADIO WAVES

"TOO FAR FIVICHED." Most radio men in New York declined to comment recently upon the prediction of experts of the British Marconi Company who were quoted in newspapers as saying’ that voices of famous men who have spoken over the radio were still wandering in the ether and might be picked up a hundred years hence. ‘hey said they considered it ‘"‘too far fetched.’’ DE FOREST SPEAKS. Dr. Lee de Forest, inventor of the radio valye, was willing, however, to discuss the theory. He said: "Approximately one-fiftieth of the original power radiated from a_ radio station is available, after the signal passes twice around the globe, vhich is about as many times as a signal has encircled the earth and then had ufficient strength te be recorded. In one second the origina] signal strength is reduced to about one-thousandth of its original power." ‘Theoretically,’ he continned, ‘the waves exist forever and circulate continuously around tne earth, providing they do not escane through the ‘radio roof,’ or ‘Heaviside layer; then even a plarconi engineer could not get them ack. In just the same way the waves on the ocean exist forever, but they are too small to be seen or detected. It follows that the splash made by Noalt’s ark when it slid off Mount Ararat is ‘still in existence. It seems to me to be a bit preposterous for the Marconi engineers to say that radio waves may be detected even a few minutes after their utterance."