Storm Country Folly by Grace Miller White Copyright by Littfe, Brown 4e Co.

PROGRESS OF RADIO THROUGH THE YEARS

dittacce of 00 mQea by radio signals. 1901—Ka&n coramos:cacioa started srlrh ftT>’ islands tn the Ha-Jr&iien Sroop. The first British ship ts fitteic. with the wireless tele^sph. 3902—Radiograph signals received aboard vessels 2 t sea ai 1^00 statute miles. Signals received 'ram a distance of 2.000 miles. 1908—King Edward receives a ra-

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Wireless Research Began Long Ago, But Development Has Been Swift Lately. Wireless research started many years ago. as Car back even as 1827. Even the radio telephone la not a reperfection; rather It is that introto the layman of the hen

High-power stations were ordered by the Italian government- First transatlantic radio raessap- sent. Telegraphic news service for ships at sea is started. Marconi knighted In Rn»n. ISO*—The first press message was

Patent for hortsomtal directional aerial is taLea oat. This was a great step forward in long-distance work. 1906— International conference is held In Berlin at which incut of the countries of the world are represented. 1907— The ose of steel disks for producing notes were successfully

tions in Ireland and Nova rere opened for limited public

service between Great

1909—Steamship in collision with another off the coast of Florida sneby r

the Titanic bring assistance and save lives of TOO passengers. 1913—Tests were made between the Eiffel tower In France and the station at Washington. Daring the trip Into Central Asia an explorer received his longitude and time signals from a

i it poll away north, he ■t'wd a * ' _ ‘ r heat to get her hack home, leglrl 1 of the Uke to the Silent Cfcy. “Stay t ere with the ehPd." be aald ottrUy. Til be bmet la a minute.” Polly aatthen him dolly as V rtrode away. When he reruraed. be had in his band s Urge key with

My i_ one day when oor of my frieods and I were in town together. We went gad my friend booght a The storekeeper wi it ap and «e started oat of tfae He said asked if we wanted anything else, no sod we went out of the ■tore. Wbru we get eat on the steps bt rasa- out behind as and askad ay if she wasn't going to pay for

out in London by Marconi. Afterward, iiing was carried as great as one s*. Sir William Preere of the British postoffice system

The first Marconi station U erected on the Me of Wight and experim mdacted over a distance of 14 miles. Hear the end of the year the first

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the ehac at as most far nt/u waist he- * • Mg found tfcsa. b-

Ont of World's Groat Hi vara The mouth of the Teniscl U only opun f«c a trr weeks In the year. One of the large*! rivers in the world, the VeiiUri. which Sows into the Arctic am at TenUriek. is in Its lower reach e* four or five tu’les aide.

1915— Radio communication between America end Japan is completed. T*ve located at San Francisco and Tokyo with c relay station at F-on-Ma. The American Telephone and Telegraph company succeeded in radio trifrocn Arlington eta'.iuc at Washington to Hawaii, a distance of nearly 5.000 mile. Secretary Daniels of the United States navy transmitted telephonic from Washington to the Brooklyn navy yards. 1916— President Wusoc and the mikado of Japan exchange messages the new transpacific radio service. which is formally opened. 1917— Senatore Marconi visits the United States and aids greatly in recruiting for radio operators for the United States army. ISIS—Wireless telephony progressed rapidly, being used to a great extent in the equipment of airplanes. Several new long range stations were erected in the United States, it being claimed for one built at Annapolis. Md.. that it was capable of communication at 4.000 miles. The United States government also opened a highpower station at Bordeaux. of this year radio signals sent from a point 12X100 miles sway were received in Sydney, Acutralia. 1919—With the exception of the three transatlantic flights—that of the C. S. NO *, and the British flights of Alcuck and Bia*ts and the dirigible R-34. tn which radio communication played an important pan tn keepte.; the ships of the air cm their course*— no v«y great pfgreas wss made in radio telegraphy, although radio telebeing poshed along quietly.

1999—Reposts made on lighthouse UfriAent by radio. First French gunboat is fitted with radio apparatus. In

Tbs Easier Way Iff* so easy to jrit to help that a lot of people nev er lie «<• try and work their own way oat of their dtfrulclea.

balloons is established. New York Herald receives radio report of Interastlonal yacht races. The British

tuto the South African battiefieMs. U*»—German venaai communicatas a

and sending were lifted by the Ameri1920—This was the year of the radkr telephone, more attention probably belup paid to this branch cf radio than to its older brother, telegraphy. Severs! broadcasting station* were epeneri. 1SC1—This year was another radio tdepoonic year. It was mark'd by the opening „f numerous broadcasting