Show bellamy foresaw radio in musical telephone idward Bell amys inus musical leal telephone phone as aa described in looking backward ackward IS 2000 1887 strongly suggested present day radio radin programs with some additional wrinkles doctor leete lie he related accompanied me t to 0 my room when I 1 retired tu to instruct z ne me as a to the adjustment nd of 0 tle tile musical telephone tie showed uie me how by ne a screw tile the volume of music could be made to nil fill the room or die away to an echo so faint and far that one could scarcely be sure whether r he ha heard or imagined lt it if ot of two persons side by side one desired to listen to music and the other to sleep it could be made audible to one and krudl ble to the other ke explained that by a clockwork combination a person could arrange to be ba awakened at iny any hour by music on sunday sunda y he heard a sermon tran transmitted from nn an acoustically prepared c hamber chamber the voice of a roan inan at the pitch of ordinary conversation addressed us with an effect of proceeding irom from an invisible person in the room kansas city times |