Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, an undertaker equipped his $19,875 motor hearse with five white-enameled wooden angels, a phonograph, a radio amplifier. He increased his business...
...broadcasting service. This seems impossible. You send out into the spreading atmosphere a program of music and talk in the form of wireless waves. Anyone who has a radio set may listen to this program, without any charge or without the possibility of another's preventing him. The phonograph company sells you a machine and then sells you records. The radio company sells you a set and then gives you free broadcast service...
...machines. They sell and will continue for a while to sell many sorts of extra parts. But, unless they work a miracle, they cannot go on inventing new devices of improvement forever, and they will saturate the market for parts. Automobile companies have an unfailing market for replacement parts. Phonograph records wear out, and have to be replaced at a fairly rapid and constant rate, and fashions in records change. But the radio machine is singularly constant. It does not wear out. Its parts are singularly constant, too. You have to replace bulbs, but a bulb will last...
...with. At first important musicians and verbal entertainers were willing to perform gratis for broadcasting, in consideration of the advertising. But soon, when nearly everybody had sung into the radio, the advertising value diminished. All that the radio companies could get were third-rate performers. They turned on the phonograph for the radio. That made the affair ridiculous. They have not done it so much lately. Protective organizations for musicians demanded pay for radio service. Orchestras still continue to allow the broadcasting of their concerts. At big sporting events spoken reports are broadcast. It is questionable how long these things...
...cylinder engine weighs only 20 pounds and is scarcely bigger than a phonograph motor. It develops 12 horsepower and the plane can fly 60 miles to the gallon. Yet so skilled is the design that Barbot flew to 6,000 feet in 30 minutes, and can attain a speed of 70 miles an hour...