By radio we shall see what is happening in a distant place; inaugural ceremonies, football, baseball or polo games; flower festival, mardi gras, or baby parade.

So when the development of radio as a service to the eye has progressed to a like extent with ear-service radio, we will bring the entire opera to your home in both acting and music, or even the Olympic games from across the sea.

It has been most satisfying to have had a part in the development of this wonderful medium of contact between individuals and between nations. My part being principally visual radio, I expect great things from Radio Vision.

And did you ever notice the curious fact that a great laboratory, despite its inestimable contributions to science and engineering, has never yet brought forth a great, revolutionary invention which has subsequently started a new industry, like the telegraph, telephone, and telescope; motion picture, typecasting and talking machines; typewriter, bicycle and locomotive; automobile, flying machine, and radio vision.

It has always been a poor man to first see these things, and as a rule the bigger the vision the poorer the man.

And, do you know, that is right comforting, too; for I sometimes think that perhaps I myself may yet do something worth while if I only stay poor enough, long enough.

Radio Patents of Interest

129,971Loomis
235,469Bell
571,463Thompson
653,881Pollack
660,199Pollack
714,577Gruhn
725,140Roberts
841,387DeForest
867,877DeForest
879,532DeForest
884,110Stone-Cabot
929,930Latour
934,969DeForest
968,484Kruh
980,356Squire
980,357Squire
980,358Squire
980,359Squire
1,015,881Fessenden
1,030,240Hoglund
1,059,763Reisz
1,069,535DeBernochi
1,097,871Murphy
1,135,624Rosing
1,141,850Stille
1,161,734Rosing
1,316,967Moore
1,329,688Voulgre
1,356,763Hartley
1,370,504Hammond
1,385,325Jenkins
1,390,445Jenkins
1,406,445Culver
1,413,333Jenkins
1,423,737Sandell
1,434,064Montielhet
1,436,676Peterson
1,440,466Jenkins
1,444,605Heising
1,450,080Hazeltine
1,454,532Beatty
1,467,988Hoxie
1,470,696Nicholson
1,475,583Hoxie
1,484,648Jenkins
1,485,773Espenshied
1,489,228Hazeltine
1,505,158Martin
1,521,188Jenkins
1,521,189Jenkins
1,521,190Jenkins
1,521,191Jenkins
1,521,192Jenkins
1,521,205Stephenson
1,522,305Latour
1,525,548Jenkins
1,525,549Jenkins
1,525,550Jenkins
1,525,551Jenkins
1,525,552Jenkins
1,525,553Jenkins
1,530,463Jenkins

Note: As Washington is the birthplace of radio, and has been the birthplace of more revolutionary inventions, upon which great industries have been built, than any other ten-mile territory, it may be interesting, and appropriate, to add here a recount by Mr. Jenkins of Washington’s claims to intellectual stimulus.—Editor.