Radio Round The World

Radio Record, 17 June 1938, Page 44

Radio Round The World

N a recent census of listeners in English and American hospitals, it was found that the women hardly listened to their radiog at all, They said quite frankly they did not listen hecanse there wis no romance, And so on Friday's at 6.0 p.m. N.Z, standard time, 2&0 Sydney has arranged 10 broadcast a series of love letters by an anonymous reader, They are directed to all women of all ages, so that those who want romance may feel each letter is meant for them. According to the writer, they are deeply sincere and honestly intended to make the listener fee] she is heing made love to, PHB roar of a lion is 100,000,000 times more powerful than is re quired for the human ear to hear it. Engineers tucked away in sound-proof rooms in the huge Phileo plant have discovered many strange things about our sense of hearing. ‘They have found that the range from the faintest to the londest sounds perceptible to the human ear is from one to three trillion power units.. The force at work in the faintest sound heard by the normal ear is so smal{ that it would have to be multiplied by two and one-half billion times to equal the force required to merely raise a pound weight. One of ihe scientific staff at this plant explained it in this way: "If the lips of. an average speaker are held within a halfine, of the ear of a person of normal hearing, the accoustic power the ear receivcs Is ten billion times greater than necded for mere preception of sound." z