RADIO

Related Subjects: Electricity, Propaganda

1. The main trouble with radio is preaching—preaching, not by ministers of the gospel, but by advertisers.—JAMES R. ADAMS, More Power to Advertising
   

2. No prediction of radio's future can be so wild, so fantastic, that even the most unimaginative engineer will dismiss it as impossible of realization.—WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT
   

3. The telegraph and the telephone have been called "space annihilators" in their day. Space annihilation indeed! We never really knew what the term meant until the time came when thousands listened at the same time to the voice broadcast through the ether just as if they were all in the same room. Patagonians, Eskimos, Chinese, Americans, Kaffirs, and Apaches are next-door
   neighbors.—WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT
   

4. Governments soon learned that radio was easily their most effective medium of propaganda. The spoken word is more dramatic than cold type. . . . It can reach the illiterate as well as the literate. If shrewdly interwoven with entertainment, people will listen whether they like the message or not.—LAVINE & WECHSLER, War Propaganda & the U. S.
   

5. Though radio is already a nearly indispensable factor in our daily lives, it is as yet only an infant science whose mature power can only be guessed at in the light of what has already been achieved.—JOSEPH LEEMING, Peaks of Invention
   

6. The Radio Corporation of America sent a message consisting simply of the letter C around the world in five seconds.—JOSEPH LEEMING, Peaks of Invention
   

7. The World War hastened progress in radio development, as it did in the aircraft field. Wireless communication was a necessity to all governments, and each country did all in its power to hasten advances in the new art.—JOHN A. MALONEY, Great Inventors