BALTIMORE messengers are pulling their telegrams out of thin
air. The city where Sam Morse sent the first telegraphic message
over 100 years ago now has six Telecars, roving station wagons
each equipped with two-way radio and a Telefax printer. When a
message arrives, the dispatcher radios the driver to speed to
the address. Then he wraps the message around a cylinder in the
transmitter and facsimile is received in car en route. Is this
how you’ll get your newspaper In the future? Maybe, says
Toshiba, the Japanese electronics firm that developed this
facsimile receiver. It prints both sides of a sheet
simultaneously, in six minutes. If mass-produced, the device
would sell for an estimated $300. The Man Who Made Radio Talk
And Gave the Movies a Voiceâ€”The Dramatic Story of Lee De
Forest, Inventor of the Audion Tube By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE
THE story of Lee De Forest, and of his long and bitter court
struggle for possession of the basic patents on the audion tube,
runs parallel to the history of radio. Like