Presto

14
August 15, 1929
PRESTO-TIMES
R A D I O
FOUR DISTRIBUTORS CONGRATULATE ZENITH
"We congratulate you, and so will
the entire radio world," declared four
of Zenith's leading d i s t r i b u t o r s ,
shown in the above photo, to Zenith's
four engineers whose achievements
made possible the new Zenith "50
J line" chassis which is said to embody
; features revolutionary in screen grid
design and performance. Zenith dis-
tributors who have enjoyed a pre-
liminary demonstration of the new
chassis declare it will mark an en-
tirely new epoch in radio reception
when it is introduced in the new
Zenith "50 line" models which vvil!
make their appearance to the radio
public this month.
Shown grouped around the chassis
I^AUD ZENITH ENGINEERS ON NEW "50 LINE' CHASSIS.
above is, left to right, Zenith engi-
ing & Montague, Philadelphia, and Dave Goldman, of
neers: Carl Hassell, who designed and built the first
Zenith receiver in Zenith's early history; C. E. Mar- the North American Radio Corp., New York city.
shall; Dr. F. A. Rafferty and H. A. Gates. Zenith
Zenith distributor-dealer shows, introducing the
distributors: L. T. Johnson of the Kimberly Radio new Zenith "50 line" and Zenith's sales and adver-
Corp, Chicago; Myron Craddick of the MacKenzie
tising plans for the coming season, are being held
Radio Corp., New York City; Dave Trilling of Trill- throughout the country, starting Aug. 12.
CROSSLEY JOINS HOWARD RADIO CO.
Alfred Crossley, one of the leading radio engineers
of the country, is now chief engineer of the Howard
Radio Company of Chicago. Mr. Crossley has been
continuously identified with radio for the past twenty
years. In the early days he was with the United
States Navy, operating both ship and shore stations.
Later he became research assistant at the University
of North Dakota under Dr. A. Hoyt Taylor. At
the outbreak of the war, he became a commissioned
officer in the navy, and later he was placed in charge
of the installation and development of all submarine
radio equipment, and finally had charge of all naval
radio research activities. To him goes the credit for
the development of the present standard of frequency
now used in this country.
RADIO-FREQUENCY AMPLIFICATION.
Allen B. DuMont, chief engineer for the DeForest
Radio Co., Jersey City, N. J., writes of a change that
has been made by the DeForest engineering staff in
the rating of the screen-grid audition. He says the
effects of this change will be enjoyed in the radio sets
of the very near future. Manufacturers can build
sets that will operate each stage of radio-frequency
amplifications at maximum efficiency, resulting in
greater sensitivity with greatly increased selectivity,
as no modulation of neighboring signals will take
place.
ZENITH CONNECTICUT DISTRIBUTOR.
The MacGregor Radio Corp., a newly appointed
distributor of Zenith radio for the State of Connecti-
cut, has opened up its headquarters in New Haven
at 120 Meadow street, under the vice-presidency and
general management of Charles Gomprecht, for the
past five years general manager of the well-known
radio wholesale firm of Trilling & Montague, dis-
tributors of Zenith radio in Philadelphia.
THE EYE OF RADIO.
So little is understood and so much is misunder-
stood regarding television that a booklet entitled
"Television—The Eye of Radio," is most welcome.
Under this title, the Jenkins Television Corporation
of Jersey City, N. J., has published a booklet of 32
SUMMER RADIO SALES "EXCELLENT."
pages and cover, which contains a conservative, in-
A
mid-summer survey of the radio industry, accord-
teresting, readily understood discussion of just what
television is, what has been done so far, what is being ing to President H. B. Richmond of the Radio Man-
done for the future, and why the television experi- ufacturers' Association, indicates another "excellent
ment is about to develop into the television industry. radio year. Summer sales, President Richmond
states, are in unusual volume, although the present
season lacks the stimulus of the presidential election
RADIO-VICTOR'S NEW RECEIVER.
campaign enjoyed last year.
A new receiver, employing an improved A.C. super-
heterodyne circuit, and enclosed in a console cabinet
KOLSTER IN GERMAN DEAL.
with an electro-dynamic loudspeaker, has been an-
Ellery W. Stone, president of the Kolster Radio
nounced by E. A. Nicholas, vice-president of the
Radio-Victor Corporation of America. The cabinet Corporation, has announced that an agreement has
is of attractive two-tone walnut veneer, with burled been signed in Berlin between Kolster-Brandes, Ltd.,
maple overlays. The loudspeaker opening and control and Telephonfabrik Berliner Aktiengesellschaft for
the manufacture and sale of Kolster and Brandes
panel are covered with cut velours. The pattern of
the material has been skillfully worked out so that models in Germany.
the controls appear to form a part of the design.
ZENITH PLANTS IN FULL SWING.
MAJESTIC'S HUGE PICNIC.
More than 30,000 persons on Saturday, August 3,
attended the annual employes' picnic of the Grigsby-
Grunow Co., radio manufacturers, which was held at
Fox River Grove, 111. Thirty special trains carried
part of the employes, with their families and friends,
while a convoy of 900 automobiles operated between
the company's plants in Chicago and the picnic
grounds. Prizes totalling $10,000 were awarded the
winners in the events.
UNION CARBIDE EARNINGS.
The Union Carbide and Carbon Company reported
net profits of $7,324,297 for the second quarter of
this year, which was equivalent to 88 cents a share
on 8,306,108 shares of stock. Net profits for the sec-
ond quarter of 1928 were $5,868,610, or 70 cents a
share on the present stock. Net profits for the first
half of this year were $14,528,243, or $1.74 a share,
compared with $11,872,742, or $1.42 a share, for the
first half of 1928.
The three mammoth Zenith plants in Chicago are
in full swing with a production program of 2,500 sets
daily. All Zenith cabinets are now manufactured in
Zenith's new cabinet plant, installed at a cost of more
than a quarter of a million dollars and equipped with
the most modern of woodworking machinery in exist-
RADIO IN THE SCHOOLS.
In the public schools of Oakland, Cal., experi-
ments have shown that it is possible to teach almost
"any subject by radio. With classes in various schools
listening in on the same lessons, good results have
been obtained in such diverse subjects as literature,
geography, arithmetic, penmanship, science, singing
and physical training. The classes experimented upon
ranged from the fifth to the tenth grades.
HUGE ORGAN FOR GERMAN BROADCASTS.
What is believed to be the biggest organ possessed
by a broadcasting station is located in Munich, Ger-
many. It has fifty stops and 3,183 pipes.
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
RADIO AS EDUCATIONAL AID.
A committee has been appointed by Secretary Wil-
bur of the Department of the Interior to study edu-
cational broadcasting, both for adults and schools.
The radio men and the trade press have been asked
to cooperate. The committee consists of United
States Commissioner of Education, Wm. John Cooper,
chairman; Judge Ira E. Robinson, chairman of the
Federal Radio Commission; Dr. John L. Clifton,
Director of Education, Ohio Department of Educa-
tion; Dr. W. W. Charters, Bureau of Educational
Research, Ohio State University; Dr. H. Robinson
Shipherd, Business Training Corporation; Dr. Frank
Cody, superintendent of schools, Detroit; Merlin H.
Aylesworth, National Broadcasting Company; Dr.
John H. Finley, New York Times; Dr. Will G. Cham-
bers, School of Education, Pennsylvania State Col-
lege; William S. Paley, Columbia Broadcasting
System; Dr. Harold J. Stonier, American Institute
of Banking; James A. Moyer, division of University
Extension, Massachusetts Department of Education;
Dr. George B. Zehmer, University of Virginia; Mrs.
Howell Moorhead, Foreign Policy Association; Miss
Alice Keith, Radio Corporation of America.
EDISON INVENTIONS IN FORD MUSEUM.
Since Henry Ford proposed the establishment of
the Edison Institute of Technology at Dearborn,
Mich., in which will be a complete museum of Edi-
soniana, many workers have been busily engaged in
collecting the immense amount of original models,
machinery and apparatus, invented, devised and con-
structed by Thomas Alva Edison during his prolific
career. All of this material, so closely tied up with
the industrial development, the comfort and the hap-
piness of the world, will eventually be fittingly in-
stalled in the Ford Museum, where they will be on
display for all time.
GRIGSBY-GRUNOW IN CANADA.
Majestic radio distribution in Canada has enjoyed
tremendous expansion in the short period of one
year. Back of the Majestic radio is the Grigsby-
Grunow Company, of Chicago, which has grown to
be one of the largest institutions on the entire con-
tinent. Nine huge plants in Chicago are occupied and
the daily capacity has been brought up to the tremen-
dous figure of 4,500 complete radio receiving sets.
The Grigsby-Grunow Company will cooperate with
the enlarged organization in the manufacture and
marketing of the Majestic electric radios in Canada.
WILLIAM H. DEUTSCH JOINS EDISON.
Announcement has just been made from the office
of P. J. Burns, manager of the Orange Branch of
the Edison Distributing Corporation, that William
H. Deutsch has become associated with that com-
pany to handle the sales activities of Edison radios,
phonographs and records throughout the northeast-
ern section of Pennsylvania.
FINANCE PLAN FOR ZENITH DEALERS.
Hugh Robertson, treasurer and general sales man-
ager of the Zenith Radio Corporation of Chicago,
manufacturers of high grade radio, reports that an
exclusive contract has been executed for the financing
of Zenith dealer retail installment sales, between the
Zenith Corporation and the Commercial Investment
Trust Corporation of New York.
WOMEN'S INFLUENCE AS BUYERS.
Women have become vital influences in the selling
of radio receivers today in the opinion of R. W.
Jackson, general sales manager of the Brunswick-
Balke-Collender Company. In 95 per cent of all radio
sales women are the major influence, Mr. Jackson
states.
NEW YORK LEADS IN STATIONS.
With twenty-three radio stations, New York city
has more than ten states combined. The ten states
are Maine, Kentucky, Utah. New Mexico, Vermont,
New Hampshire, Delaware, South Carolina, Nevada
and Wyoming. Chicago is the closest rival of New
York city, with twenty-one stations.
SIAM RATIFIES AGREEMENT.
Siam has ratified the international radiotelegraphic
convention, according to announcement by the United
States Department of State.
The Great Lakes will have 43 per cent of the radio
beacons guarding the entire coast line of the country
when eight stations now being put up are com-
pleted.
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