WIRELESS ON TRAIN
MADAM DOUBTED IT. (Sun SpeciaL) MELBOURNE, June 12. “The old lady sat in the train corridor listening to’the music while I held the wireless set on my knee. “And where is the music coming from?” she asked. “It is coming from Melbourne, madam,” I answered. “She looked at me and said nothing, but with her eyes she said: ‘What a liar!’” This story was told to-day by Mr Morris, a well-known Melbourne optometrist, when detailing how he had picked up broadcast music on the Adelaide express, using a valve set and no outside aerial, while the train was travelling at 45 miles an hour. Mr Morris said that the music from three broadcasting stations was heard quite distinctly for an hour and a-hal£.
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Southland Times, Issue 19277, 23 June 1924, Page 5
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126WIRELESS ON TRAIN Southland Times, Issue 19277, 23 June 1924, Page 5
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