WONDER RADIO.
♦ ■ — NO BATTERIES NEEDED.
SIZE OP A MATCHBOX. AMAZING VOLUME OF SOUND. Hidden in a small semi-detached house- at Aldershot is the of an amazing Avireless set that Avorks Avithout batteries, vah r es or electricity and reproduces sound of great volume, says the Sunday Express. The inventor, 36-year-old Leslie Albert Rumble, gassed himself in Uio scullery Avork room where he made his experiments. It is said that he refused offers of more than £IOO,OOO for his amazing apparatus, AA'hich is about the size of a matchbox.
He hid parts of tho set in loaves o bread, pieces of cheese, and in the dust bin.
Mr. Leslie Franklin, of an Aldershot wireless firm, told the Sunday Express that some time ago his brother and he became financially interested in Mr. Rumble's invention. "We believe that even if the blue prints cannot be found we know enough to discover how the set works," he said.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 30 July 1937, Page 2
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155WONDER RADIO. Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 30 July 1937, Page 2
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