Paul Specht Radio Program

[Paal1994]

Found this over at the Internet Archive. An old radio program featuring the great Paul Specht Orchestra.
The program was aired from Chicago in 1931.

Click here to listen

ENJOY!

Paal.

[EdisonSquirrel]

I was surprised that the radio program carried advertisement for training in the field of television. There was no television in 1931.




Rocky

[Paal1994]

I was surprised that the radio program carried advertisement for training in the field of television. There was no television in 1931.




Rocky

Rocky,

Well, according to Wikipedia the first regular television broadcasts began in Germany in 1929.
Don't know when it started in USA, but it can't have been long after 1929, since this broadcast was from 1931...

Paal.

[Viva-Tonal]

I think there were only tests and not much more in New York City at the end of the 1930s but all of that stopped for the duration of WW II. It wasn't started again here until about 1946.

[Guest]

I was trained in electronics by a man named Robert Boulay, he was born in 1917. His father was an inventor, and scientist and had bulit a radio station in the early 20s. He told me that his father and a few others were working in the mid to late 20s on scan disc televison, about 1927 or so. Mr Boulay was a employee of Western Electric/Bell Labs, he designed a lot of equipment for wartime communication such as the throte carbon microphone, it goes on eiter side of your addams apple. One of the first jobs in his father's electrical laboratory were tending to banks of batteries, charging them and changing the electrolytics. He told me they made many of the the components,themselves used pencil leads for resistors, and nicklecad wire on ceramic forms for resistors capacitors made of foil and wax paper, and mica. I have a 1936 magazine on radio engineering that mentions TV.