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go to the dictionary they are lost for sure. Potentiometer, variometer, variocoupler, radio frequency, amplification, loop a?rials, audion and grids-no, I am not saying these words t

y partner shines. He has heard the big words so much that he talks them in his sle

by a lot of the words that Bill had pronounced. Then Bill, putting his hand to the side of

how that he knows how

San Francisco and someone else in Maine listening to it, and without any speaking tubes, nor wires to carry the sound along! A good many folks are

xactly like the voice that started it. But somebody found out that this same energy could be shot into the air in all directions and carried any distance, maybe as far as the st

rds like 'grid,' for instance. They could have called a variocoupler a 'gol,' a potentiometer a 'dit,' an induction coil a 'lim,' (l-i-m) and a variable condenser wou

differently under different conditions. But if the sun has an awful lot of heat it can't send it ninety-five million miles-not in reason! The heat only makes light and that light travels through space. It reaches the atmosphere of our earth and is converted into heat aga

uring hands and had labeled it "Bill Brown, radio radiator." Bill made a motion of his thumb toward the caricature, then spread his hands i

ing out pretty fast what it will do. Perhaps there is hardly any limit to what it will do. It is generated for power and light and heat, for carrying signals and sounds over wires and th

er, it is the vacuum or audion tube detector that gives results, and the application of a loud speaker is only possible with a vacuum or audion tube. It is as easy to build a vacuum tub

"I may need this for this partner of mine if he persists in caricaturing me instead of drawing what we want. We'll make things about four times as big as they ought to be. You ca

e to your vacuum tube, with its fixed condenser and grid leads, the wire being connected directly to the grid, while here the wire from the tube plate is connected with the six-volt storage battery and in turn with the phones, like this. Then

can't find out how to make the parts, or contrive them in some way yourself, why, then, you'd better buy them. Only you can make the base and d

ll you'll have to do is to get Doctor Field's consent and come round to our shop in the base

of the audience, as Bill and Gus left the

iar to you all. The great inventor is now an honored guest of this country, his yacht Elettra lying off our shores. It seems doubly fitting that more than special mention should be made of him, and as