Some Schoolboy "Howlers"
HE following schoolboy "howlers," published by an English contemporary, speak for themselves :- "Wdison invented the gramophone by means of an electric lamp." "Marconi used to hear across the Atlantic although the B.B.O. wasn’t started then. He heard with co-hearers." "A kilocycle is like a kilderkin, only really electricity per second." "Wireless is of two kinds, bands and SOS. When it is SOS it is not amusement but commercial." "Polarity is what a needle points to if it points due north." "Inductance is what they do to new curates in old churches." "Frequency means often; the greater it is the longer the velocity and the smaller the meters,"
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Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 37, 27 March 1931, Page 6
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110Some Schoolboy "Howlers" Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 37, 27 March 1931, Page 6
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