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Show THE V urgency of war, early in 1914, to turn to the Baldwin unit and adapt it to its many uses. When the United States entered the war, the Navy drafted Baldwins entire output and the Baldwin unit Its fame one at Holliday, Utah, each with a floor space of approximately 25,000 square feet. The East Mill Creek Plant alone has a capacity of 3,000 Baldwin loud speaker units per day. There is in 7 Years ago, I think in 1908, while operating some machinery at a mine about thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, and living alone, Mr. Baldwin says, I spent much of my time working on a kind of sound amplifier and also a special form of telephone receiver, to use in connection with it. One day while going slowly down the canyon on horseback, and thinking of my problems I said, T shall see the time when I can speak to a million people at addition an assembling plant in Canspread to the four comers of the ada for making and distributing the earth, and its inventor was re- units throughout the dominion. Baldwin units are distributed garded by experts and amateurs in the newly growing science of through hundreds of jobbers and wireless or radio, as the foremost thousands of dealers in the United contributor. The clarity, sensitivity States, Canada, the British Isles, and rugged design of the unit met France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, South once. with instantaneous approval. Its Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Several years ago I was invited astonwas of Hawaiian Islands, China, Japan, to speak over the radio at a great fidelity reproduction Alaska, and, in fact, in practically National broadcast in Chicago, and ishing. With contracts coming in faster every civilized country on the face had I not declined the invitation I than he could fill them, Nathaniel of the globe. could have spoken to more than a Baldwin worked away at his bench The company employs approximillion. ini his shack at East Mill Creek, de- - mately 200 skilled laborers, recruit-- , At the time of which I speak I ed from the citizens of the surroundvoting his full time to the manufacture of the set. It is said that when ing communities, in its East Mill looked for wonderful developments an order for 100 sets came in he was Creek plant alone, and has a payroll in thought communication but I must unable to fill it. of more than a quarter million dol- admit that the achievements at the present time have far exceeded my lars annually. added assistant after assistant. expectations. Many millions can now Baldwin radio products are manlisten to the same speech, song, muNathaniel Baldwin Incorporatufactured here and shipped throughsic or program. What a wonderful ed, emerged as a company of growout the world, because of the exceling importance in the intermountain lence of the workmanship obtainable success! The greatest and best in territory, and in the radio industry. here, and because Mr. Baldwins speech and musical art is now available more or less even to the humbToday Nathaniel Baldwin Incor- personal feelings and frienships are lest citizens. What a wonderful porated, comprises two large factory rooted deep in the mountains where means of education and refinement. groups, one at East Mill Creek, and his early struggles bore success. The automobile has ceased to be merely a luxury, and is now a necessity to business, comfort and industry. Likewise, the radio is rapidly coming into place in the same way. Today comparatively few people have radio sets, but in a short time there will be a few people without them. The apparatus for radio transmission and radio reception is being rapidly improved and in some instances entirely changed. The equipment is being made better and cheaper and more durable. To the moving picture has been added the Vitaplione, and phonographs are now being equipped with moving pictures, thus providing the Vitaphone for home use. Similarly, television will be added to radio. Possibilities in this line are beyond contradiction and before we have time to think, as it were, programs will be furnished at ourVery firesides with speech, music, song and performances in actual colors, radiating from these super stations. You will then become acquainted almost personally with the greatest characters of the day, and we will be kept in constant touch with the leading thought and changing customs of people all over the world not in in your sets, miniature peep-hole 'but in pictures thrown upon your walls, bringing you into the O Mr. Baldwin at the side of his laboratory-hom- e presence of the performers. was $ used CITIZEN exclusively. . HE es life-siz- |