COLOSSAL IGNORANCE IS THE CAUSE
An astonishing instance of the colossal ignorance of many listeners concerning the broad principles of radio communication and even of ordinary telephone work came my way the other day, says “ Free Grid,” in the ‘ Wireless World.*
1 happened to ho, taking tea with a lady of mature years, a nonagenarian in fact, who has built up quite a reputation for herself in the village near which I dwell, owing to the fact that as a small girl she once saw Heinrich Hertz studying the waves at Margate. Being somewhat hard of hearing, she finds that headphones are her mainstay. After complaining that no inventor had bothered to produce a really comfortable type of headphones, she added that people, who broadcast should have better manners than to put their months so close to the microphone. For the moment I could not imagine what she was driving at, and thought that she was merely referring to blasting; what was really in her mind fiashpd upon me only when she carefully unscrewed the caps of the earpieces and commenced wiping the accumulated moisture from the diaphragms.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 4
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