Overcoming Static
A ‘'MIRACLE TUBE”
AMBITIOUS CLAIMS MADE
LONDON, .Tan. 7. Mr. E. Watson Watt, superintendent of the radio research station, demonstrated at the Imperial Institute a “miracle tube,’’ designed to eliminate atmospherics from wireless receivers and flickering from television pictures. Mr. Watt denounced atmospherics an a radio criminal. “We will discover his features, draw his portrait aud circulate it as Scotland Yard does those of criminals, in order to capture him and end the mischief,’’ he said. The tube will also register storms, and lightning flashes within a radius of 3000 miles within 30 seconds, thus permitting accurate weather forecasting and safer long-distance flying. It will also increase the certainty of locating ships in distress and the tracing of disturbing wireless stations and enemypositions in war time, while it will record a speed of 100,000,000 miles an hour and 25,000,000 oscillations a second. The apparatus will cost only £7 10s.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7062, 23 January 1933, Page 3
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