WIRELESS FINDS THE WORLD'S LOST PEOPLE

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 20 April 1928, Page 15

WIRELESS FINDS THE WORLD'S LOST PEOPLE

A message was broadcast from 21,0 not long ago which was a first instal- } ment of some of the visions of the future conjured up by a scientific novelist long ago. A young American was on a cycling | tour in Scotland, had left no addresses, and was for all practical purposes out | of reach of letters and telegrams. He was wanted. His father had died at sea. It was imperative that he should go home with all speed. So much the wireless spoke aloud to all who might listen, and who can doubt that wherever the young man was he must sooner, rather than later, hear of this strange call, perhaps at the first inn in the Eghfands where he stopped for a night’s lodging? Even if he sought a bed at "a farmhouse he would more likely than not be told of the message that had been humming the night before on the wireless. The wireless had another arrow on its string. This one was winged in search of a relative of the American, a lady who was known to be touring the Iiastern counties, and whose ‘car had been seen in Cambridge the day before. That wireless arrow was sure to find its mark. Vhen the scientific writer was pluneing into the future years ago he imagined that if a man were wanted urgently he could be almost immediately found, even if he were wandering lonely in some glacier field of Spitsbergen or in Pacific Islands Wireless, in its infancy then, has made the whole of the prediction matter- of- fact now. om cease Guage ©-0e