File:Woman playing chess by radio 1922.jpg
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English: A woman in New York, Rosalind Kendall, playing chess with a friend in Chicago using a two way radio link provided by a Jersey City radio station, published in a 1922 radio magazine. Practical radiotelephone (sound) transmission became possible with the invention of the vacuum tube oscillator radio transmitter in 1913. By 1922 radio broadcasting was just beginning, radio became a hugely popular high-tech innovation, and a "radio craze" swept the country, inspiring stunts like this. The woman spoke into the cone-shaped horn attached to the transmitter's carbon microphone, and listened to her friend's reply in the earphones. Caption: "Beth Weber, Chicago, discovered a radio way to play chess with her chum, Miss Rosalind Kendall (above) of New York. Rosalind uses a Jersy City transmitting station to talk back to her friend" |
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| Source | Retrieved January 19, 2014 from The Wireless Age, Wireless Press Inc., New York, Vol. 10, No. 1, October 1922, p. 23 on Google Books |
| Author | Unknown author |
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