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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1922
Page
13
The article explains constructing a basic radiophone receiver using a long outdoor antenna and ground connection, with antenna lengths of 50 to 200 feet and a high enough height for stronger signals. It provides a step by step tuner fabrication from cardboard tubing, No. 22 magnet wire, wooden end blocks, a slider, and binding posts, noting ready made tuners cost 8.50 to 54.00 dollars.
British scientists report progress in transferring motion pictures by wireless. Earlier successes include a photograph sent from Politiken in Copenhagen to England and later to a ship in mid Atlantic. If perfected, receivers could display distant events such as a sinking ship, changing how people view happenings far away.
A crystal detector cannot be satisfactorily amplified. Insulate ends of aerial wires with small insulators. Run aerial wires at right angles to electric light wires where possible. Lead wire should match the total number of aerial wires. Gas piping makes a poor ground but a cold water pipe ground is excellent. Crystal detectors are never as efficient as vacuum tube detectors regardless of instrumentation. Within three to five miles of a broadcasting station indoor, a one wire about 40 feet long stretched room to room is generally satisfactory with crystal detectors.
An exploration of the name Alberta tracing its Teutonic roots and historical spread from Aethel to Albert through English royalty. It notes masculine and feminine forms Alberta and Albertine, and discusses cultural vogue, superstition, and the talismanic belief attached to the name.
Discoveries in Kentucky caves reveal Glacial age human bones and remains of raccoon ground hog gray fox deer buffalo and bear including a partly fossilized polar bear skeleton. World War I soldiers showed varied death expressions with British calm French tears and Americans often dying with a laugh or joke.
In the Second Post letter, a belt from a recent overcoat is deemed too short and ill placed buttons. The note references earrings in fashion history from famous men and the venerable superstition of piercing for eye relief. St Apollonia, protector against toothache, is linked to dental lore.
A fragment praising woodmen for their mastery of craft and secluded forest life. It extols their health, picturesque speech, and connection with nature as it whispers secrets to them, contrasting with ignorant derision and likening the forest to an ocean of monotony.
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