Batteryless Radio

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 9, 12 September 1930, Page 6

Batteryless Radio

HILD in Toronto, Mr: A. B. Harris "+ had the pleasure of meeting Mr. EB. 8. Rogers, the man whose genius created the batteryless radio set, and who is now the vice-president of the great corporation which makes the set with his name. Before Mr. Rogers had finished his studies as a schoolboy, he was an experimenter with the new wonder of the age-then known more generally as wireless. School and college were no sooner finished that he plunged right into radio as a life work, first as a wireless operator, and later as a scientifie investigator and inventor. But he did not long follow the beaten paths. While still a lad in his teens, he launched out in as yet uncharted zones of the science, seeking to solve the riddle of operating receiving and sending sets without the use of batteries. And he did solve it, as the world knows today. While still in his early ’twenties he was the first to develop successfully and manufacture a multiple valve radio receiver operating from current taken from the lighting mains and without the use of batteries or acids. Though but a few short years have passed, it is a far cry from that first batteryless receiver to the magnificent modern instruments which are on the market to-day. As to the future of radio, Mr. Rogers remarked: "When it comes to the art of broadcasting, the art of entertaining over the air, I feel -that we are all in our infancy. Greater things are before us. Radio has a future which none of us can fathom."