The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 93

THE INDIANAPOLIS SUNDAY ST Alt, SEPTEMBER 20, 19:25. 19 RADIO PRODUCTS MADE HERE MEET FAVOR THROUGH NATION FRENCH HAVE NOT DEVELOPED USE OF COMMERCIAL RADIO OPERATOR AT PURDUE. Local Manufacturers Turn Out Receiving Sets and All Desirable Accessories To Exhibit at Exposition. f.fl 1 In Comparison to Other Countries, Telephone Phase Undeveloped Railio broadcasting and reception bjr telephone In compared with the United States and other countries, is thus far undeveloped upon a Pom mercial scale. Consul I.

Westcott, Paris, advises the department of Commerce. That fact restricts present opportunities for the sale of American radio sets and accessories although tlio possible market therefore in the near future should not be disregarded. At present there are in France only four long-range broadcasting stations. They are located in Paris. Two are operated by the government, one by a private company dealing in radio equipment ami one by an enterprising newspaper.

The variety, selection and technical rendition of programs broadcasted bv them are of a burn order. Operating expense of the private company are defrayed in part by competing -French radio manufacturers and dealers. ew St ill ions. Recently regional stations, or lim '7-W 0. CIIIKC OP Kit A T(l HHIt.V.

Indiana radio listeners take justified pride when they hear WBAA Purdue university on the air, as both the station and Mr. Kurnhart, the chief operator are strictly Hooslor products. WBAA has aii ultimate goal of a TiOO-watt power station, costing $22,000. The station's programs arc highly valued by farmers in Indiana. also made with radio compartment with lifting lid on the left hand side of the cabinet CHILDREN TUNE IN ON STOCK REPORTS Radio products manufactured In Indianapolis are fast winning recognition in all parts of the United States.

Radio manufacturers here make, among- other things, sets, batteries, cabinets, tables, boxes and loud speakers. "The Frest-O-Lite Company has the conception that storage battery manufacturing is a chemical consideration more than it is mechanical consideration," Henry Knippenberg, sales promotion manage of the company, said in discussing his product. "Confidence )s the first requirement in marketing radio batteries. Back in the early days of storage battery people bought batteries, blindly, and volts, amperes and electrolyte were all Greek to them. Radio has changed all of this.

The fog of mysticism intentionally thrown around the battery business by unscrupulous dealers has been dispelled by reliable( dealers. The Prest-O-Lite Company believes that if is to the best Interests of everybody concerned to do everything possible to make battery selling and servicing as simple as possible. "Compared with other branches of automotive 'manufacturing, nfaking of storage battery experience is peculiar. It is a highly specialized experience. If there is anything mysterious about a storage battery In the minds of motorists it is the fact that making etorage batteries is not a mechanical consideration, and that a good storage battery Is the result of controlling chemical processes rather than a mechanical process.

Control "The control of electro-chemical processes Is of absolute importance to obtain and maintain quality in storage batteries. We build Prest-O-Lite batteries under a process control system that goes far deeper than ordinary Inspection. This process control enables us to take the best of materials and build batteries of uniform high quality," Mr. Knippenberg said. Visitors to the first annual jadio exposition will be given a concrete idea of another radio industry in this city which Is the manufacture of the all-wood Orchestrion l)e Luxe radio loud speaker, in viewing the immense loud speaker horn to be on exhibit.

The horn which is attracting so much attention was manufactured by the Radio Cabinet Company, 2123 Oltxy street, who also make the Orchestrion Sunburst loud speakers- under the Brcmerman patents. Starting in a modest way some months ago, Frank Bremerman launched the all-wood Orchestrion Ie Luxe loud speakers after years spent in the study of accoustics and the building of violins and other Instruments solely of wood. The horns are made entirely of wood. Even the goose-neck of the tone arm Is made of laminated bent woods. "Built like a violin" is the" slogan of the company.

A Thing of Beaut-. The Orchestrion Ie Luxe horn is a thing of beauty. It stands twenty-seven Inches high. The bell is constructed of laminated bentwood in alternating stripes of walnut and ma-1 hctgany beautifully finished, with black and white pyralin inlay at the edge of the bell. The tone arm is of strippled mahogany effect and the base is of solid mahogany.

The Sunburst model is of the cabinet type and takes its name from the fact that the grille "facing the walnut backed by rich colored orange silk makes the appearance of a sunburst. The Indiana polls-made railio speaker has been distributed throughout all the states of the United States and even in foreign countries, Mr. Bremerman said in discussing his product. "Cardinola Radio Receivers" in three models are the products of the Continental Radio Corporation with laboratories anil factories located in the 1300 block on Brookside avenue. Stockholders are made up of several prominent Indianapolis business men.

The present production capjacity of the company is 200 instruments a week. The models are a five-tube single dial control cabinet type of receiver; the consols type with ample room for batteries; and the five-tube cabinet type, with built-in loud speaker. The circuit Is five tubes of tuned radio frequency, using two stages of tuned radio frequency, detector, and two utages of audio frequency. The cabinets are solid mahogany, or burled walnut. "The importance of properly housing the radio set can not be overestimated," H.

T. Griffith, vice president of the Udell works, manufacturers of furniture and cabinets, said in discussing the contribution of his company to the iwdia Industry. F-rotvction ImpOKttive. "To start with, the set showld-'be properly protected and it is imperative that a place be provided for the batteries You wjmt your horn built in the cabinet. The mechanical parts of radio do not appeal as much to the wife as they do to the so when not in use they can be inclosed into our radio cabinet.

Our radio cabinet provides a beautiful piece of furniture during the day. and is easily accessible when you are ready to tune in at night "It will be remembered that whejn the talking machine first came out they were all portables, but in ited range, -have begun operating at Lyons, Toulouse and Agen. Hut it is generally conceded by the trade that the commercial development of radio in France will require tie regular operation of from fifteen to twenty stations for long-range MroMdcastfng. They should be So located that every section of the country will be of good reception- at all hours, but apparently there Is no Immediate prospect that' such a project will be realized. French radio receiving seta are complicated by the gnat range in wave length to which they must "tune In.

That obstacle has retarded commercial development from the beginning. Tho Eiffel tower station operates rfi and the others above noted on 450 and 345 meters. Due to the extra long operating waves, which are now obsolete, the receiving set requires a multiplicity of plug and other accessories. If broadcasting were limited to waves of meters the cost of ft set would he much less, its operation simplified arid the demand, therefore, increased. CODE WILL NEVER LOSE PLACE, SAYS MARCONI LOX DON Code, which stellar ride In wireless communication between ships, will probably never lose its place to speech, according to Senator Ougllelmo Manoni.

'I am of the opinion," says Marconi, "that there is no likelihood of radio telephony superseding radio telegraphy at sea. If, however, the demand does come, telephony will he an adjunct to telegraphy, serving Its own particular purpose." Study of mail received f-rom radio listeners indicates that children are about as much interested in stock market reports and agricultural lectures as they are in the fairy tales of the Half Hour." One mother wrote: "My little girl loves to hear stock market reports. She around all day saying, 'Hogs, wholesale, $15; beans, white, 8 cents; old roosters, colored, IT Another listener reported than a 4-year-old girl In his family tuned in agricultural talks by choice, because they were many times about animals in which she is very much interested. A review of letters mentioning children received over a period of a year show that when left to themselves to select what they like best over radio. years the great majority of the talking machines have been either of th-upright or console type.

The same thing is happening with, radio sets and tbe tendency is toward the set Inclosed in the cabinet," Mr. Griffith said. Charles R. Brendel, manufacturer of radio cabinets, 81G-818 Fort Wayne avenue, is gaining recognition in the radio world because of, his beautiful plain and console types of custom-built cabinets. This success comes after thirty years of experience in woodworking and cabinet making.

Thomas Madden Sons, 2M(! Kaxt Michigan stand rather unique as radio manufacturers. They build custom sets and incorporate any style of or type of set that the customer may desire (ioing further than that, they will build. If desired, a "tailor-made," or. made-to-order eight-tube superheterodyne. A radio cabinet, a radio table and a radio box are manufactured for the trade by the' H.

Company, manufacturers of furniture, this city. The cabinet is made in combination mahogany, antique finish, and also in combination walnut, antique or Norman The cabinet has an all-wood horn or loud speaker with metal taper tube to which loud speaker unit can be attached. The horn is located in the upper left hand corner and is covered by grille. The table Includes an all-wood horn loud speaker with. metal taper tube to which loud speaker unit can easily be attached.

The radio box is without equipment of any kind. The H. Iauter Company also manufactures console talking machines in French walnut, dark walnut and brown ma- I children very often choose talks about the realities of Jife rather than the fairy tales and stories of fancy which i are being broadcast for their enter- tainment. I Oh the other hand It was found that I almost as many letters from old peo- pie have been received in response to "Children's Half Hour" broadcasts as from the children to whom the broad-I casts were directed. I hogany finishes.

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Sold on Convenient Terms Pettis, fifth floor. Atwater-Kent A favorite with thousands of owners of Atwater-Kent Radio. The equal of Model 20 in performance and with a color scheme and finish that is strikingly rich and beautiful. Two stages of Tuned Radio Frequency Amplification, a Detector and Two Stages of Audio Frequency Ampli-f fication, with three tuning dials. 5-Tube set.

Price at $80.00. Stuart Style, Model 1320-R-2, complete (less tubes and batteries) $260 is Coo Pettis ID)iry Gooc New York Store Est. 1 853.