BROADCASTING TO MILLIONS
New York Times. Feb 19, 1922
ALTHOUGH radio telephony and its phraseology, broadcasting, serial antennae and wave lengths, are almost as common topics of conversation today as the Eighteenth Amendment, one-half of 1 per cent., and Mr. Volstead, it is extremely hard, even ...
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HIGH TENSION WIRES TRANSMIT THE VOICE
New York Times. Dec 31, 1922
BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 30.--The successful transmission of voice over electric power lines carrying 70,000 volts by means of carrier current, a new development of radio, was announced here today by the General Electric Company.
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ENGLAND TALKS TO US BY WIRELESS PHONE.
New York Times. Feb 12, 1926
LONDON, Feb. 11. -- The transatlantic conversation by wireless between the new British station at Rugby and an American station on Long Island was carried on successfully Sunday, according to a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph who writes:
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TALKS BY TELEPHONE OVERSEAS NOT SECRET
New York Times. Jan 4, 1927
LONDON, Jan. 3. -- Although no official announcement has been made as yet, it is expected here that the official date for opening the transatlantic telephone service will be made public some day this week. Simultaneous publication of the official announcement will be made on both sides of the Atlantic.
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TOPICS IN WALL STREET.
New York Times. Jan 8, 1927
An orderly advance in many of the market leaders featured trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Just before the close there was a fairly impressive demonstration of strength in the general list, but up to that time the activity, while at times quite brisk, was confined to a limited number of high-grade industrial and railway issues.
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RADIOPHONE SERVICE SHOWS MARKED GAIN
New York Times. Jan 9, 1927
New York and London resumed their telephonic conversations yesterday under conditions more favorable than marked the opening of the radiophone service between the hemispheres on Friday. Sixteen calls were completed, the voices carrying with distinctness that amazed some callers.
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GLASGOW LISTENS TO SOUND OF FACES
New York Times. Feb 4, 1927
GLASGOW, Feb. 3. -- John Baird, inventor of television, told the home folks of Glasgow about it tonight. When he ventured to tell some of them several years ago that it might be possible to see through brick walls they answered him with the Scottish equivalent of "What's eating you?" and let it go at that.
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NEW YORK-LONDON PHONE HAS BUSY FIST MONTH
New York Times. Feb 13, 1927
WHEN a busy New Yorker picks up the telephone receiver and asks for London -- yes, operator, Picadilly 2215, London -- it usually takes about five minutes to put his connection through. between noon and one o'clock he may have to wait a few minutes longer.
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LEGAL RIGHTS OF BROADCASTERS DISCUSSED BY JUDGE DAVIS
New York Times. Jun 12, 1927
WITH radio litigation likely to result from the administration of the new radio law even to the probability of the constitutionality of the act itself being tested, counsel will likely regard the new book of Judge Stephen B. Davis, "Law of Radio Communication," as a valuable precedent, inasmuch as it is believed to be the first study of its kind ever printed.
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