[78-L] BE Nit Pick

[martha]

 They used a Westinghouse RC RA-DA set,  manufactured well after Election Day 1920.  The horn speaker they used couldn't 
have been plugged directly into a RADA, as the RADA was amplified only enough for headphones.  And they'd need a long wire 
antenna, ground connection, and batteries - plus a signal strong enough to reach Atlantic City, of course.

 The point about getting the returns from a newspaper office & not from radio is what matters, though.   The dame who called 
attention to the radio was the most distracting part of that scene, because she looked like Harpo Marx !




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] BE Nit Pick


> Not only is this a worthless reference source, you read it wrong.  The
> 1911 reference is to an "electrodynamic telephone" which is not even
> discussed by the company.  It probably was an experiment by one of the
>
> FIND ME AN AD FROM 1920 THAT SHOWS A RADIO RECEIVER WITH A LOUDSPEAKER.
> It's got to be an ad printed in 1920.
>
> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] BE Nit Pick
> From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
> Date: Wed, December 08, 2010 4:24 pm
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>
> http://www.goantiques.com/detail,magnavox-company-consumer,340633.html
>
> for the 1911 reference.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:00 PM
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>
> 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 only 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
>
>
> -----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?!