[78-L] BE Nit Pick

[Michael Biel]

Since Magnavox was founded in 1917 it would be interesting to have the
URLs of the pages.  I see a lot of stuff on the web that isn't worth the
paper it isn't printed on.  Since most radios were crystal in 1920, and
the 01 tube was not really strong enough to drive a loudspeaker,
headphones were usually the onlt things that were in use -- even in the
radios Westinghouse was selling at the point of KDKA.  A year or two
later someone was marketing a horn you could clamp your headphones to in
order to get a little volume.


Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com

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Subject: Re: [78-L] BE Nit Pick
From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
Date: Wed, December 08, 2010 3:46 pm
To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

An eb page is just like a web page except with a silent and quite
invisible
W. The 1911 date was from a page about some Magnavox paperwork I
believe.
I could Google it again if you'd like.

Ron L

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From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
> According to one eb page,

What's an "eb page"? Who wrote it? What is the reliability.

> Magnavox had the first radio loud speaker in 1911.
> Another mentions a Magnavox horn style speaker in 1917.
> Ron L

Magnavox had developed a P.A. system in 1919 but it was something that
was very rarely used and required a roomful of batteries and tubes.

Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Knowlton

the ballroom crowd gathered around a radio with a horned loudspeaker on
its
top to listen to the Harding-Cox elections, supposedly coming from KDKA.
 
I don't think people were listening in 1920 to a speakered radio;
earphones
were the method of hearing that early time, right?! 

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