Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1925 — Page 18

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KOKOMO ENGINEER SAYS HE HAS LATEST DEVICE Expects to Revolutionize Radio Industry by Invention — Claims Receiving Set Development

Michael Tolin, 1220 W. Walnut St., Kokomo, Ind., and his son James except to revolutionize the radio industry if the type of receiving set which they have developed and perfected does even half of what they claim for it. Radio experts started out the new year by stating that 1925 would probably see no radical changes in radio sets. Tolin’s invention seems to belie such a forecast. Briefly, Tolin has developed an entirely new principle as applied to radio. His receiver doesn’t even remotely resemble any receiving set that anybody has ever seen. He has done away with the whole welter of coils, tubes, transformers, variometers, rheostats and whatnot that enter into the ordinary set, yet the Inventors claim that the new set will do anything that a superhetrodyne will do. All that the observer sees of the invention is a glass tube mounted horizontally upon a wooden base. The tube ig about four inches long by an inch and a half in diameter. The wooden base is less than a foot long by about six Inches wide. Inside the tube is the entire working apparatus of the set, meaningless to the observer, but fraught with tremendous possibilities, according to the inventors. The Tolin set eliminates a "B” battery. It operates solely on six volts of dry battery, four ordinary round one and a ha If-volt cells

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hooked in parallel. And Tolin says that he has about perfected a device that will do away even with the “A” batteries permitting direct use of the house current. The entire set weighs about two pounds and is almost compact to slip into one’s coat pocket. He contends that it will take in all of the wave bands up to 1,000 meters. A button on the base controls the volume and a sliding contact along the tube is the station selector. Three Jacks at one end provide output for a table speaker as a connection for aerial or loop. For his invention Tolin claims distance, selectivity and volume equal to any receiving set on the market and into the bargain an economy of operation that is almost nothing by comparisrn with the sets now on the’ market. He is an Industrial engineer and has devoted his attention to the development of his set since the early beginnings of radio as a science. He says that he has all along had the revolutionary idea incorporated in his set, which only required years of patient experiment to perfect and make practicable. Income Tax Talks Radio fans will be prepared for their Income tax reports by a series of talks from station WBZ at Springfield, Mass. Thomas McCarry, public accountant, will tell the fans how to make out their reports correctly.

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O'" 1 N Feb. 12, the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoin, the WGY players will present "Our American Cousin” from WGY at Schenectady. It was during the presentation of this play that President Lincoln was shot as he sat in a box at Ford’s Theater, Washington, April 14, 18*5. The radio production will be directed by Frank Oliver. Since WOC has eliminated all forenoon schedules they have added several new features to their programs broadcast .every afternoon. One of the most important of these, at least insofar as the woman of the home is concerned is the "Home Management” schedule by anew member of the personnel at WOC, who is known to the radio family as “Aunt Jane." WDAF and WHB of Kansas City have again changed their wave lengths. This time they have dropped down to 365.6. These two stations have been broadcasting on 411 meters. It Is not known whether the new change is permanent or not. Mabelanna Corby will present a special program of piano numbers from WOK Saturday evening starting at 7:30 central time. Miss Corby is a well known pianist and has entertained the radio audience many times from WOR. The Dallas String Quartet will present a special program through WFAA Saturday evening, starting at 11 p. m. central time. An ideal form of radio entertainment, a combination of talking, singing, orchestra music and humorous dialogue, all woven into an interesting story, will be presented by KGO, Saturday evening, Feb. 7. Gilbert and Sullivan’s snappy "Pirates of Penzance” has been selected and rearranged to suit the conditions of broadcasting. Car! Anderson will direct the company of eleven singers and instrumentalists who will represent the villainous characters of the plot, and those unfortunates of the story who have fallen into the clutches of the "Pirates." Friday evening’s program Feb. 6, over KOA, is provided principally by the Denver Concert quartet, assisted by the KOA orchestra, of which Lewis H. Chernoff is director and Elsie Webb. H. L. Johnson, who already has won a wide following in' connection with his discussions of automobile upkeep, will speak on "Road Troubles' With the Automobile." Another significant feature has been added as a regular attraction to KOA’s broadcast schedule. Beginning next week, matinees for housewives will be heard over the new Rocky Mountain broadcasting station of the General Electric Company at Denver, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons at 3 o’clock sharp. _______ i One hundred and fifty women’s voices will be heard by KOA’s audience Wednesday evening, Feb. 11, when the Treble Clef Club of Denver appears before the KOA microphones under the direction of Florence Lamond Hinman. In addition to choral selections, the program includes vocal and instrumental selections, a grouping of British folk songs and Irish dialect headings and an address, “Lincoln and Law Enforce 1 ment,” by Omar E. Garwood. On the KGG educational program, Monday night, Feb. 8, Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of Mills College, Oakland, will talk on the subject of “College and-University." On the same evening "Possibilities of Cooperative Marketing" will be discussed by Prof. H. E. Erdman, division of rural institutions of the college of agriculture, University of California. An event which will be without precedent in the field of radio will be broadcast Sunday night, Feb. 8, by WGBS. Mascagni’s opera, “Cavalleria Rusticana," one of the most popular of the Italian operas, will be sung in the Gimbel Brother’s studio with a full cast of distinguished operatic voices, a complete chorus of singers, accompanied by a full operatic orchestra of strings and wind Instruments. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Rudolph Ganz, will be heard in a- special program Saturday evening, which will •e broadcast direct from the Odeonaa

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by KSD. starting at 7:30. KSD broadcast on 549 meters. Organ recitals by Otto Beck are being broadcast direct from the Trivoli Theater every Saturday evening at 10:30 by station WRC, Washington. WTAM (Cleveland) is presenting a special program of dance music by Philip Spitalny and his Victor Recording Orchestra every Wednesday evening from 9:30 to 13. These programs are being broadcast direct from the Music Boat Restaurant. Vincent Lopes and his orchestra will be missing from the programs of WEAF for & while. This orchestra is now on tour filling a vaudeville engagement. The regular Thursday and Saturday evening dance programs from this station Is being played by the Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra direct from the hotel grill room by remote control. The U. S. Navy Band will broadcast a program from Washington this evening through stations WCAP, WEAF, WJAR and WKJfil, starting at 6:30 Central time, "Fiesta Mexicans” a program cf all Mexican music by real Mexican artists will be heard from station WGBS, New York, Saturday evening, Tills program will start at 8:45 and last until 11 p. m., after which a program of dance music by Vincent Rose Orchestra direct from the RitaCarlton, will be broadcast. WGY, the Schenectady station of the General Electric Company, will Join the WJY of New York in the broadcasting of the recital by Marcel Dupre, the famous French organist from the Wanamaker Auditorium this evening, Feb. 6, from 7:30 to 8:30 o’clock. Because this is the final opportunity of hearing Marcel Dupre before his return to France, WGY is postponing its production of ”11 Trovatore" which was scheduled for broadcasting, Feb. 5. The date of the opera will be announced later. "When a whisper can .be heard 800 miles away It behooves the gossiped to ‘watch his step,’ ” said- Paul H. Pearce, director of station WEMC at the conclusion of the second

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whispering contest conducted at that station Monday evening, Jan- 12. Fred Eiseman, Sheldon, Kan., was given first prize. The radio line of the A. E. Hill Company of Atlanta, Ga., has been placed with the Kruse-Connell Company of Indianapolis. Mr. L. G. Chapin, manager of sales promotion for the Hill Company, completed the plans to further acquaint radio users with the products of the organization. The feature of the Hill line is a fixed condenser that is meeting with wide popularity throughout the United States. High-Power Radiocaster A superpower broadcasting station is being planned for the Philippines, according to Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bullard, retired. The station will be built by the Radio Corporation of America for its subsidiary company there. Body capacity,’or hand capacity, is the term applied to the property of the human body which makes__ it act as an electric condenser. The body is not a good condenser.

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