The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
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The Transformer and Tuner of the World's Largest Radio Station.
Owned by the Radio Corporation of America at Rocky Point near Port Jefferson, L. I. Broadcasting Government Reports by Wireless from Washington. This shows Mr. Gale at work with his set in the Post Office Department Wireless Receptor, the size of a Safety Match Box. A Youthful Genius in the person of Kenneth R. Hinman, who is only twelve years old, has made a Wireless Receiving Set that fits neatly into a Safety Match Box. With this Instrument and a Pair of Ordinary Receivers, he is able to catch not only Code Messages but the regular Broadcasting Programs from Stations Twenty and Thirty Miles Distant Wireless Set made into a Ring, designed by Alfred G. Rinehart, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. This little Receptor is a Practical Set; it will receive Messages, Concerts, etc., measures 1" by 5/8" by 7/8". An ordinary Umbrella is used as an Aerial CHAPTER I HOW TO BEGIN WIRELESS In writing this book it is taken for granted that you are: _first_, |
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