Edison Evening on Feb. 18th

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 31, 17 February 1928, Page 4

Edison Evening on Feb. 18th

TRIBUTE TO WONDER M MIND OF THE AGE VE Mae OT o ws » ey " As announced last week the special Edison evening will be given from 2YA on Saturday, February 18. It is confidently anticipated that the missing gramophone record bearing Edison’s personal message will be duly to hand by the mail steamer arriving early this week, and in that event the programme, which will be of a highly interesting character, will take place as announced, Our illustration shows Mr. Edison at the radio microphone, broade casting the same first words that were spoken to the original phonograph"Mary Had a Little Lamb, etc." For long enough Edison refused to appear before the microphone, but on August 12, 1927, on the occasion of the jubilee of the discovery of the "Edison effect,’ he was induced to appear. It -was Edison’s discovery of the fact that a heated filament in a vacuum gives off: electrons which paved the way for modern broad-« casting. He, himself, did not proceed with the development of his discovery, leaving that to Fleming, but Edison did lay, in this sense, the foundation stone of modern broadcasting.