June 19, 2009

Fishermen Now Radiophone to Families (Feb, 1933)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1933
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Fishermen Now Radiophone to Families

DEEP sea fishermen spend a large portion of their lives isolated on the ocean, out of touch with land for days and days on end. A new two way radio telephone, especially designed, for installation in fishing boats has now broken down this barrier of space, permitting the sailors to speak to their friends and families ashore.

How the combined receiver and transmitter operates is illustrated in the artist’s drawing above. No trained radio man is necessary to put through a call. The fisherman simply presses a button and connects up with a land station, which hooks him up to the city telephone system. Engineers are planning on installing many of these instruments on American fishing boats cruising the East coast areas.

June 9, 2009

Silent Telautographs Write Directions to Radio Artists (Jul, 1931)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1931
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Silent Telautographs Write Directions to Radio Artists

TO ELIMINATE all interfering noises in the National Broadcast Studios, engineers are installing noiseless telautographs which write out directions to performers, thus doing away with the old method of waving the hands to give signals from the control room. The telautograph is placed near the microphone, directly before the eyes of the performers, so that directions can be read without the least difficulty.

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May 13, 2009

MORSE CODE TYPEWRITER (Nov, 1959)

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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1959
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MORSE CODE TYPEWRITER

A HEAVY-FISTED ham was Willard Guthoerl—and no one was more aware of it than he. His brutality was spent entirely on his sending key, however; hams from coast to coast and beyond the seas complained of his Morse signals. Instead of trying to improve his fist he built—for seven dollars—an electronic machine that does away with the single sending key.

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April 9, 2009

Midget Radio (Jan, 1947)

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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1947
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Midget Radio, left, is tuned in by an official guide at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London where it was one of 6,000 items in the “Britain Can Make It” Exhibition. It costs about $70.

April 6, 2009

Candid Pickups (Jan, 1947)

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Issue: Jan, 1947
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Candid Pickups

IF YOU don’t think amateur recording is tun, just ask Johnny Olsen. radio papa of “Ladies, Be Seated.” He’s been having a picnic with his home recorder for years. You don’t have to stay home with them, either.

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Roll Not The Barrel (Jan, 1952)

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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1952
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Roll Not The Barrel

The recreation room in your home will be enhanced by this out of the ordinary, record changer cabinet.

By Loren Collins

THIS is an unusual project requiring a minimum of material and only the simplest hand tools. When completed it will not only be an attractive addition to your den or rumpus room but a serviceable record player, rivaling many large consoles in tonal quality. Using the unbreakable 45 rpm 7-in. disks that come in a wide choice of classical and popular selections, it will play ten selections, or from 30 to 50 minutes of music with one loading.

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March 30, 2009

Sound Film Now Repeats Dialed Telephone Numbers (Aug, 1930)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1930
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Not quite sure why this requires such a huge speaker, or any speaker at all…

Sound Film Now Repeats Dialed Telephone Numbers

THE principal convenience of the dial telephone was that it enabled you to pick your own wrong numbers, but even this is done away with now by a sound film which repeats the number which you have just dialed and enables you to correct the mistakes which you may have made.

The new invention does not necessitate the use of the subscriber’s voice. The subscriber merely dials the number and that number is called to central as the sound film automatically repeats the number through a loud speaker. The new method is expected to be put in use before the end of the year.

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March 25, 2009

New Talking Movies Replace Stenographer’s Note Book (Sep, 1930)

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Issue: Sep, 1930
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New Talking Movies Replace Stenographer’s Note Book

THE movietone principle of recording the human voice has been adapted to office use in a machine which has been named the “Dailygraph.” The device is primarily intended for dictating letters in the office but may be used to record speeches for translation or future reproduction for educational and historical purposes. It is a German patent and has been placed on the market in continental countries.

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March 16, 2009

Telegraph Office Moves To Emergency By Trailer (Jun, 1937)

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Issue: Jun, 1937
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Telegraph Office Moves To Emergency By Trailer

TRAILER telegraph offices that can be rushed to the scene of major news events for use by newspapermen and the general public have been developed by the Western Union Telegraph Co. The mobile offices can operate at any point where wire facilities are, or can be made available.

The trailer interiors provide writing desks for customers, a counter, and telegraphic equipment for both automatic and Morse operations.

To attract attention the trailers are painted with an aluminum roof and blue bodies. The words—”Mobile Telegraph Office” and “Send Your Telegrams Here”—are painted in large yellow letters.

March 11, 2009

Light Me Up by Phone Some Time! (May, 1932)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1932
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Light Me Up by Phone Some Time!

MERRIAM HOPKINS, Paramount motion picture star, has had installed at the studio a telephone which flashes a light instead of ringing the well-known bell.

This arrangement becomes necessary if a star or other picture employee expects phone calls while working in the sound-proof talkie studio.

March 6, 2009

Golf Widows (Feb, 1946)

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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1946
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Golf Widows will be able to check up on their husbands now with this new application of the portable radio receiving set. The one being used here is a forerunner of the set to be manufactured.

February 18, 2009

CHINA’S MILLIONS Twist the DIALS (Jun, 1937)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1937
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CHINA’S MILLIONS Twist the DIALS

The Orient opens its heart to radio and in the footsteps of the American listening public, succumbs to the appeal of native amateur hour artists.

by Robert H. Berkov

AGE-OLD China, shaking loose from centuries of tradition, has taken the radio to its heart, and loud speaker entertainment has become one of the most important influences in a nation which is fast adopting the modernism of the west in even the most outlying sections.

From bustling Shanghai and fast-growing Nanking near the eastern coast, to Chengtu in remote Szechuan province, from the far reaches of Hopei province in the north to Yunnan in the extreme southwest, countless receivers blare forth a cacophony of western and Chinese music, announcements, speeches.

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