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Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 9, 11 September 1936, Page 47

PROFESSOR H. J. SPOONER writes to the London "Daily Mail" to say that Professor David Edward Hughes, F.R.S., discovered the microphone in 1877. and. sent and received signals Without wires over about 500 yards in 1879, and "discovered the Hertzian before Hertz, the Branly (so-called) ‘coherer’ before Branly and the ‘wireless telegraph’ before Lodge, Marconi, and Others." He adds that details of Hughes’s discoveries were published, February 2, 1899, in the "Mlectrical Review." and May 5, 1899, in the "Electrician." TTP WENTY-FIVE million listeners estimated in Canada and the U.S.A. heard a broadcast by the Dionne quintuplets from Dafoe Hospital, Corbeil, near Ontario; the broadcast had

tin trumpets, toy-drums, squeals, records of the babies’ voices at six months and one year, a few words in French, an attempt to sing, a lullaby, and the doctor with headphones and microphones trying to answer the . questious of a reporter outside the window while the children clutched at the headphones. St ae Me. P. T; FARNSWORTH; vice-presi-dent-of Farnsworth Television -Incorporated, and one of the pioneers of television in the U.S.A. grew impatieut about holding television back till it is perfect: "It seems to be the general belief that the baby must be born with a beard."