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De Forest Forecasts
Postwar Boom in
Use oi Television
'Father of Radio' Says
Radio's Possibilities
Are Still Untapped
By the Associated Tress.
TjOS ANGELES. April 7.—White
haired Lee De Forest, “father of
radio." sees in the postwar future—
Television “taking a spurt” faster
than radio did after the last war;
stations in every good-sized town
offering nightly changes of film pro
grams; families enjoying two-foot
square television images in their
parlors. . . .
Abolishment of office and factory
epidemics of colds and sniffles with
ultra-violet light, which will kill
germs in the air. . . .
Plane pilots unhampered by the
thickest fog. setting their ships down
smoothly by means of landing beams
and altimeters that show above
ground altitude to the foot. . , .
Opened Radio Vistas.
Mr. De Forest in 1906 gave the
world the three-element radio vacu
um tube, opening up the vistas of
broadcasting, cross-country and
cross-ocean telephony, television and
sound movies—and has lived to see
four fortunes slip from him.
But at 69. the pink-cheeked scien
tific genius is unembittered, vigorous
and enthusiastic. He is busy now.
manufacturing short - wave dia
thermy machines for the Navy, t
There is something ironic in this
—the inventor ot the radio tube that
made possible voice communication
between the worlds death-dealing
planes, tanks and ships now7 building
life-saving, health-giving devices for j
naval hospitals and ship bays. Mr.
De Forest says they're beneficial in
a wide variety of ailments from
arthritis to pneumonia, emitting
radio waves that warm affected tis- !
sues and bones and dilate capillaries
so the blood stream can carry aw:ay
accumulated poisons.
Makes Own Tubes Again.
To make his machines, Mr. De
Forest has had to turn once more,
because of military priorities, to the
manufacture of the radio tubes he
invented—something in which he
hasn't had a direct hand since he
sold his interest in the De Forest,
Co. 20 years ago.
In his modest "Lee De Forest
Laboratories" on swank Wilsvire
boulevard, vacuum pumps clatter
and employes form 10-inch radio
tubes of molten glass on a whirring
lathe. When a worker heats the
elements of a tube to blinding in
candescence with unseen radio waves
from a copper coil. Mr. De Forest,
with the exnuberanee of an amateur
experimenter, exclaims, "Isn't that
magic!”
Sitting at his magazine-littered j
desk, before a workbench strewn
with glass cylinders and metal:
parts, the shirt-sleeved inventor
speaks eagerly of the future.
Sees Television Network.
"T have some ideas on television ;
I want to get at when the war's
over.' he says. "Television will be |
the primary source of home enter
tainment. Eventually there will be !
a network of television transmitters.!
"Before that, however, individual
stations will broadcast film pro
grams. passing the films from city
to city as motion pictures are now.
_ "For the most part, the limit of
the size of the television picture in j
tine home is now eight by 10 inches. I
But even now it is possible to have.!
projected pictures, say two feet
square. The television receiver will i
cost not less than $250 and range
up to $1,500.
Developed New Altimeter.
"In bacteriology, too, there is a
great future. In large commercial \
institutions contagious colds will be !
done away with. There will be
large-scale application of the device I
now used In some bank.s. where a
quartz tube over the tellers’ windows
sends down an invisible barrier of
ultra-violet, light, that kills germs!
LOS ANGELES.—“FATHER OF RADIO”—Lee De Forest, who
in 1906 gave the world the three-element radio vacuum tube, is
busy now manufacturing short-wave diathermy machines for
the Navy. He is pictured in his laboratory assembling the parts
that go inside one of his radio tubes. —Wide World Photo.
and keeps the teller from catching
colds from customers."
To aid "blind" flying in the air
world of tomorrow. Mr. De Forest
has devised a "terrain altimeter"
which he says has "proved opera
tive." Instead of indicating merely
the distance above sea level, as do
today's instruments, his shows the
exact elevation above ground and
even warns of mountains or build
ings ahead.
"The future?" he exclaim-: "we
haven't begun to tap its possibili
ties!”
Walks 450,000 Miles
After walking 450.000 miles in 50
years. Matthew M. Clarke of Dun
Laoghire, Eire, has retired as post
man.
mOmUltsmi
"build every meal
I AROUND THIS ENERGY
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Effort to Nazify
Holland Nets
No Results
By Cable to The Star and
Chicaao Daily News.
LONDON, April 7.—Efforts of the
Dutch Nazi leader. Dr. Anton Mus
sert, to Nazify Holland are meeting
with no results, according to a
Dutchman who reached London last
week by the underground route.
All contracts for construction work
are supposed to be let only to Nazis
but as the majority of the Dutch
refuse to join the Dutch Nazi party,
contractors are required to sign
membership applications. Most re
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the jobs. Ninety per cent of the
time, they are so incapable or unable
to get the Dutch to work for them,
so the contracts have to be given
without conditions.
Prom April 15. all luxury hotels,
bars and amusement halls, riding
and dancing schools are to be closed
by order of Commissioner Arthur
Seyss-Inquart. The order also ap
plies to advertising firms and stores ;
handling luxuries, candy, perfumes
and cosmetics.
The Dutchman was astounded to
find he could buy tobacco and neces
sities for moderate prices in Britain.'
-;
In Holland. 50 cigarettes cost $12. a
pound of tobacco costs $24. a tooth
brush $3.50, a small bar of soap $1.60
and bicycle tires—bicycles being the
only form of transportation—$70
apiece.
(Copyright, 3 f>*3. Chicago Daily News. Inc.)
Lecture Slated
The Rev. Paul McNally. S. J., of'
Georgetown University will address
members of the Philosophical Club
of Washington at 8:15 p.m Saturday !
in the Cosmos Club Auditorium His
subject is "The Universe in Which
We Dwell."
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