World Radio

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 14, 18 October 1929, Page 8

World Radio

AN English amateur has recently patented a four-valve receiving set built into a miniature grandfather clock. The upper part of the clock has an eight-hour clock movement with an open fretwork face, behind which is a; super-cone type loudspeaker. The cen--tral, or column, portion of the clock contains the wireless set itself. Bymeans of a clock switch the instrument can be made to switch on or off auto-. matically at any given time. 4 HE Carnarvon Choral Society has accepted a rather curious: proposal suggested by..the B.B.C. In short, it has accepted an invitation to broadcast a concert from the summit of. Mount Snowdon during September. Doubtless: English listeners will be able to appre‘: ciate some high-class singing when thisi ‘experiment eventuates, but it is rather’ difficult to imagine the need for all this, trouble. If the public were insistent. on having a concert from a mountain- : top, the announcer could by a few .words punctuated by audible shivering fits, convey the necessary atmosphere , from the studio. No one would be any the wiser.