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Title: Radio for everybody; being a popular guide to practical radio-phone reception and transmission and to the dot-and-dash reception and transmission of the radio telegraph, for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure and profit without going into the special theories and the intricacies of the art
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lescarboura, Austin C. (Austin Celestin), 1891-
Subjects: Radio
Publisher: New York, Scientific American publishing company (etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ically relayed over wire linesto the New York traffic office of the company in the heartof the financial district, where the receiving operatorstake down the messages by ear, if sent at hand speed, orthe messages are automatically written down by ink re-corders if received at high speed. A similar transfer of telephone signals to and fromwire hues has been demonstrated as a commercial proposition in highly successful fashion by the American Tele-phone & Telegraph Company, in the Avalon-Los Angelesradio toll circuit, in which regular radio telephone mes-sages are sent by radio over a 313^ air gap without thesubscribers realizing that their conversation is beinghandled in any other manner than by wires. Experimentshave been carried on with the steamship Gloucester andthe Deal Beach radio-phone experimental station, and per-sons have talked over the regular telephone instrumentin their home to the ship at sea. More recently, stillmore spectacular experiments have been carried on with
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liooking up through the center of one of the steel towers. While this steel work may appear delicate because of its simplicity, it possesses great strength because of the diagonal bracing. 274 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY the steamship America while 400 miles out at sea.It is only a matter of time when we shall be able tophone to the ship at sea with the same ease that wecall up long-distance points. Certain countries, such as the United States, are sosituated geographically as to serve naturally as importantrelay centers for inter-continental communications. Com-munications from Europe to South America, and fromEurope to the Far East naturally pass over the UnitedStates. In view of the rapid rate at which the power,required to bridge a certain distance reliably by radio,increases with distance for spans of more than a fewthousand miles, it is advantageous, holds Mr. Goldsmith,to establish relay points in the United States wherebycommunications from Europe to the regions named willbe received

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