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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 8, 1 September 1933, Page 39

"PoE B.B.C. may soon have 2 competitor in India in the shape of a proadeasting station at Pondicherry, which it is expected will rebroadcast the daily programmes originating at. the French Radio Colonial station at Pontoise. According to an official announcement the station will be in direct telegraphic touch with Paris. s t z Furty years ago, long before the ‘first wireless set was made, Thomas A. Edison devised a vacuum tube that can be used to pick up modern radio programmes. But business was so pressing in Mr. Edison’s laboratory that he left to others the work of developing radio. An exact replica of Eidison’s old tube has been used to detect the sending, from a small transmitter in the proadcasting studio, of music and to deliver this sound to the microphone for reproadcasting, '